By IKHILI EBALU, BENIN CITY.
The Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) worldwide in the spirit of the season has donated food items to the Catholic Elderly People’s Home in Benin City.
Donating the items, the President, ambassador Curtis Eghosa Ugbo harped on the need to care and show love to the elderly in the society noting that everyone will grow old one day.
He said that it was a tradition for BSM to donate food items to orphanages to put smiles on their faces and give them a sense of belonging.
“In the spirit of yuletide season, we of the Benin Solidarity Movement Worldwide deem it necessary to recognize the elderly in the society by way of given out food items as a mark of love, respect and celebration.
This is a yearly exercise and we will continue to respect our fathers, mothers who need our help. We should remember that, one day we will also get old and such philanthropic gestures will also be accorded us. We shall continue to contribute the little we can to helping the elderly in the society.
Our prayer to God Almighty is to continue to give and grant us the enabling environment to maintain this tempo, and hopefully, we will continue this in the spirit of love and respect for the elderly in our society.”
In the same vein, while giving out food items and cash gifts to its members, legal team and journalists in Benin City, Elder Ugbo said that all through year 2021 God was faithful to grant them safety as they go round town doing their jobs.
Food items given out by BSM include tubers of yam, bags of rice, vegetable oil, bottled water etc.
