At the Funmi Ayoola Foundation, our Food and Cash Palliative Program is a vital initiative aimed at supporting widows and vulnerable individuals within our community. This program ensures that those facing economic challenges receive essential food supplies and financial assistance to ease their burdens.
Program Overview
Type of Program | Distribution of foodstuffs and cash support |
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Target Audience | Widows and vulnerable individuals |
Description | Providing essential food items and cash palliatives to alleviate hunger and financial strain |
Date of Events | March-April, 2025 |
Impact | Fostering hope and stability by addressing immediate needs, empowering beneficiaries to focus on long-term goals |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Elderly women numbering about 500, and 700 public secondary school students in Osun State have
benefitted from the palliative support and giveaways by Erelu Funmi Ayoola Foundation.
The beneficiaries, who are widows and the elderly, got various kinds of support from the Erelu Funmi
Ayoola Foundation Cash and Food Palliative while under-privileged secondary school students
numbering 500 in Ipetumodu received support ranging from scholarship, exercise books and sundry
writing materials.
The Erelu Funmi Ayoola Foundation, in its Pad-a-Girl-Today initiative, also gave free sanitary pads to 500
under-privileged public secondary school girls in Ipetumodu, the headquarters of Ife North Local
Government Area of Osun State, as a means of support for the girls.
Speaking on the need for the gesture, the founder of the non-government organisation (NGO), Erelu
Funmi Ayoola, said it was an ongoing effort to provide relief for those mostly affected by the current
economic hardship and food inflation in the country, especially those in the semi-urban areas of Osun
State.
Erelu Ayoola expressed the hope to reach even more people in need with help and support from donors
and volunteers from all parts of the world, and therefore called for the support of friends and well-
wishers to be able to provide more palliative support for the less-privileged.
She said the programme was part of a broader campaign to combat hunger and lack in the community
and beyond.
Also speaking on the occasion of the distribution of the palliatives, the Olubakun of Ibakun, Ipetumodu,
Chief Abiodun Ogundiran, noted that the move was a good one as it was important and commendable
that people who can, should support the less privileged.
The Olubakun said individuals could only offer palliative measures and therefore called on the
government to rise to the occasion of revamping the economy so as to lift Nigerians, especially the rural
dwellers from the economic doldrums.
Some of the beneficiaries who commended Erelu Funmi Ayoola Foundation for the initiative, called on
the government to find a way to reduce the cost of petrol in the country, saying they believed that this
was the major cause of high inflation in the country.
Through this initiative, we remain steadfast in our mission to uplift lives and strengthen our community, one act of kindness at a time.