Yuletide: ICF fetes orphans, physically challenged

...Pays bursary to 50 indigent students

As a way of reaching the less privileged in the society, the Indigent Care Foundation,(ICF) on Sunday 15, December, 2024 donated food and sundry items to the orphans and physically challenged in its 15th year anniversary celebration. The foundation equally paid bursaries to over fifty indigent students selected across various universities in the country.

Performing the function at Ben-Laz home Abarigwe Ishieke in Ebonyi Local Government Area, the founder of the Foundation, professor Adaeze Nwuzor said the foundation registered on 15, December 2009 was aimed to touch lives and called on beneficiaries to see what they received as part of their contributions to encourage education for a better society. Professor Nwuzor noted that she established the foundation as a way of touching lives of people using education adding that she was a beneficiary of her late husband's love for education and today, she's a professor on the absence of her husband.

"We should never undermine the presence of our husband in our families and like our popular adage has it that, wherever a man is, the smoke will be affecting our eyes, but the house will continue to be warm'. "This foundation was registered on 15 December 2009 and I didn't do it because I have the money,but because, I cherish education, and my late husband, Justice Laz Nwuzor gave me education after our marriage when I had but a good WAEC grade, but he made me a professor and I call on people to continue promoting education even if it's difficult on the principle of do unto others what you would want them do unto you. " This foundation is made up of orphans, physically challenged, widows, and indigent students who are intelligent and we train people in different skills and offer bursaries.

Earlier in a sermon, the Catholic priest St Paul's parish Onuebonyi,Rev. Fr. Abraham Nwali said that hope which is a thing yet to be seen,but would happen in a later day, is what all christians would enjoy at the end of earthly journey, and he enjoined the people of God not to lose hope in all their pursuit as tomorrow is greater than where they are. He appreciated the host for still keeping to all her old friends who worked with her during her time as Council chairperson, professor in the university and advised political leaders to emulate the host and shun soiling their relationship in every electioneering season in the quest for self aggrandizement. The Catholic priest challenged sons and daughters of the founder of Indigent Care Foundation, professor Nwuzor to toe the path of their mother in ensuring that the legacies already built throughout the fifteen years and more the foundation was established are sustained even as they ensure it continues to blossom.

In an interview, the leader of Divine Mercy St Mulumba Parish Azuiyiokwu, Abakaliki,Comrade Chukwuemeka Nwali appreciated the benefactor for her unbiased nature of touching lives with clear intention that she does not do it in get anything in return and called on christians to emulate professor Nwuzor kindness for a better society. Some of the beneficiaries of the bursary payment including, Miss Elom Chinecherem of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo and Miss Nwodom Chidinma, Sudan United Mission School of Health Technology thanked the benefactor for the financial assistance and promised to extend the show of love to people around them.

The highlight of the event was presentation of lecture, the official unveiling of a book, 'Echoes of My Legacy ' written by professor Adaeze Nwuzor, distribution of bags of rice and other items to indigent persons, payment of bursaries, and lots of others.