Owing to Nigeria’s challenged economy, which has negatively affected the living condition of many citizens, Ibiyinka Macaulay Foundation (IBMF) has urged privileged Nigerians to remember the poor among them.
Ibiyinka Macaulay, president and visioner of IBMF, made the call in Lagos while addressing the media to flag off the Foundation’s charity mission to schools, motherless babies’ homes, and other less-privileged individuals last weekend.
The Foundation, set up by Ibiyinka Macaulay, the fourth generation of Herbert Macaulay family, recently carried out a three-day visitation and donation of materials to Modupe Cole Memorial Child Care and Treatment Home, Lagos Cheshire Home, and Tower of Refuge Orphanage and Motherless Babies Homes.
It also commissioned water boreholes, renovated toilets and made presentation of generators to schools, including Salvation Army Primary School, Ajigbeda Girls High School and Abimbola Gibson Memorial Primary School.
Also, the Foundation in its feeding of the underprivileged programme took food items to the less-privileged located in Ebute-Meta and Surulere areas of Lagos State.
While addressing newsmen in Lagos, Macaulay narrated his near-death experience, the recovery from which gave him the passion to reach out to the needy.
He said he fell ill in October 2011 in the United Kingdom after visiting Nigeria in 2010, and was taken to hospital where he slipped into coma and woke up almost 14 weeks later at Kings College Hospital London.
Macaulay, who noted that the Foundation was born out of the family’s gratitude to God for giving him a second chance in life, said he however lost his left leg and the fingers on his right hand.
“I had blood poison and my organs shut down, which should have led to my death but God brought me back to life for a reason, which I cannot explain. I gave my life to God and the reason I set up this Foundation is to help humanity and give back to the society because I know that I did not bring anything to earth and I will not take anything back,” he explained.
According to Yinka Macaulay, wife of the visioner, the Foundation is a non-profit organisation set up by the family to help the physically challenged and those with health issues with focus on amputees, who lost their legs in one way or the other.
The Macaulay family decided to give to the needy after her husband, Ibiyinka Macaulay, survived a terrible illness, which he suffered eight years ago in the UK, she said.
