Students pay visit to old people's home in Abuja

- The number of old people's homes in Nigeria is nothing to write home about

- Much attention is not given to the few ones around

- But some children in Nigeria's capital, Abuja are changing this perception

The Amazing Grace Foundation Old People's Home in Kado Estate, Abuja on Friday, March 17, received special visitors.

Senior Secondary School 2 students from The Hillside School in Gwarimpa, Abuja visited the septuagenarians and octogenarians bearing gifts of all sorts to cater for their needs and services.

The compassionate students were able to raise the money by themselves through fundraising which finally manifested into thousands of naira, which enabled them to give gifts of all sorts to the home.

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The home received them warmly, and the youngsters spent ample time with the elderly ones. Prayers were made, speeches of thanks and appreciation were given.

The highlight was when the students lined up and presented each elderly person in the home with a gift bag. The elderly people were ecstatic and pleased to receive them and ended up clapping, singing and even dancing to show their joy at the children's generosity.

The students also made generous gift donations to the foundation aside from individual gifts and even gave a cash gift.

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Abdulhakeem Ajijola, the PTA chairman of the school spoke to Legit.ng about his joy over the children's actions. He said: "This gives us hope for the future, that the generation that is coming has much more care than the one we belong to.

''I don't think many of us at this age were doing philanthropic gestures. We have to bear in mind that this children decided what they wanted to do, planned it, came here to do a survey and after the survey, decided on the different components and then went to the market with a budget and achieved it through fund raising and taking their parents.

"So I give glory to God that as a parent, one had lived long enough to see that one's children are maturing into not just successful human being, but good people.

"The SS2's are the first set of the school and even last year, they adopted a local government school in Gwarinpa. They went to the school and saw there was no playground, no furniture, books were scattered so they made some contributions to the school last year. They have been doing similar interventions in the past."

On his part, the foundation director, King Yangnde Madaki Kinang said: "It's exciting for small children like these to recognise that they have elderly people that they can take care of, it's a sign we are going to have a good generation who understand the plight of the elderly and how to take care of them. I want to encourage other schools to do so.

''Here, nobody sponsors this home. We have about 18 rooms who can accommodate people conveniently. We hear cases, we go in and see how we can rehabilitate them. What the children did today is one of the ways we use to finance the home. What they did is a very welcome idea!"

Source: Legit.ng