Foundation raises N2m for Imo visually-impaired woman

The woman, her daughter and Okeoma

A human rights organisation, Stand For Humanity Foundation said it has facilitated the sum of N2m through an online fund raising advocacy for a visually impaired woman, Alice Audu, who hailed from Benue State but lives in Imo State, to improve her business.

The founder of the organisation, Chidiebube Okeoma, in a statement in Owerri, Imo State, on Monday, said that the foundation was grateful to Nigerians of good conscience within and outside the country for assisting the foundation to lift the vulnerable woman.

Okeoma, disclosed that the foundation had championed an online fund raising advocacy for the woman to enable them buy her a baking oven valued N175,000 but to the glory of God the donations had exceeded N2m with little fraction.

Okeoma, a journalist and human rights activist disclosed that the organization received the donations through the lady’s First Bank account detail which she is the only person that has access to it, stating that the reason is to ensure transparency and to genuinely lift her out of poverty.

He said that the foundation had fixed N1m out of the total sum for the woman in a Unity Bank account they opened for her after buying her the baking oven, renewed her house rent in advance, bought her a washing machine, food stuff that would last for months for her, paid for medical investigations and bought her the prescribed drugs, including business equipment and lots more.

The statement read in parts “we are happy to announce that the online fund raising advocacy we championed for our visually impaired sister, Alice Audu, who hails from Benue State but lives in Akabo in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State has exceeded N2m with little figure as we speak.

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