MORENIKE ARISEKOLA:
AN EPITOME OF GENUINE MOTHERHOOD, UNLEASHING ACTS OF LOVE ON AFRICAN CHILDREN
She was born to love, born to serve humanity and born to activate genuine passion for African children. Welcome to the sterling world of Mrs. Morenike Arisekola, the founder Acts of Love Africa Foundation, a non-governmental organizations she established due to her unflinching passion for the advancement and transformation of child education in the continent of Africa
As at the last count, Acts of Love Africa has contributed immensely to the educational advancement of thousands of children with more than 30 students on its scholarship scheme, university students inclusive. A lot of these students have come out severally to express their joy and appreciation for the motherly roles Mrs. Morenike Arisekola has played in their lives through Acts of Love Africa Foundation.
This woman of glamorous valour has shown that there indeed exist genuine love and passion for the African child. She is indeed a remarkable and reliable mother whose commitment remains unflinching, faithfully dedicating her hard-earned financial resources, time and energy for the upliftment of the African child, a very commendable move that deserves absolute applaud.
Mrs. Arisekola took all her time to examine the pains indigent kids go through as regards acquiring a normal level of education, but were outrightly denied. In order to contribute her own quota towards curbing the menace, she painstakingly and thoroughly visited public primary schools in her immediate community and found out that many of these children could not even afford to wear shoes let alone good ones to their schools.
A vast number of them attend schools barefooted, cuddling ‘nylon bags’ containing their tattered scanty books and looking hagardly in their dirty, torn school uniforms. A sane mind needs no further explanation that these are indeed, children of the impoverished, severely hit by extreme abject poverty. Pronto, the tender-hearted Morenike Arisekola swang into action and embarked on massive distribution of food items, school materials comprising bags, shoes, writing utensils, uniforms and other fascinating items that transformed the children. In addition to this, Acts of Love Africa Foundation also expunged some children from public schools to private schools to improve their academic performances, an action that has paid off tremendously.
Happily married to Mogaji Wole Arisekola, one of Africa’s most respected business tycoons and media entrepreneur, Mrs. Morenike is a wonderful woman, an ambassador of topnotch education for African children and an amazon of genuine passion for humanity has been actively involved in making the dream of unleashing comprehensive education on the African continent fulfilled over the years and her foundation, AOL Africa is committed to reaching people in unreachable places and make sure everyone gets the help they need. During crisis periods, the foundation took it upon itself to reach to so many people who don’t have access to the internet and is still working hard to make sure that they are not forgotten and neglected.
- Bunmi Orija writes from Lagos
