L-R:
Executive Director PWAN Lekki, Nnadi Daniel; Managing Director PWAN Lekki,
Odusanya Mukaila Odutola; Managing Director PWAN Advantage, Chinedu Ezenwa;
Group Executive Director PWAN Group/ Managing Director PWAN Legend, Afam
Okonkwo; Managing Director PWAN Plus, Julius Oyedemi; Managing Director PWAN
Heaven, Dr. Fred Okpaje; and General Manager PWAN Homes, Olusegun Joseph at the
PWAN COVID-19 palliative/food distribution in Lagos, recently
Residents of Sangotedo in Eti-Osa local government area of Lagos State
heaved a big sigh of relief, yesterday, when PWAN Group, foremost real estate
marketing company, touch the lives of over 1000 families with generous gifts of
food stuffs.
Each recipient smiled home with rice, noodles, vegetable oil, tomato pest
enough to last a family seven days.
Over 1000 pieces of ankara face mask were also given out even as the
residents were encouraged to embrace safety advise by government and medical
experts as a measure to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chairman of PWAN Group, Dr Augustine Onwumere, said that he was
deeply touched seeing that the stay-at-home order, which ordinarily is a
positive move by government to arrest the spread of coronavirus in the country,
had unfortunately subjected many families to hunger and serious economic
challenges.
"As a responsible corporate organisation, we could not just sit back
and watch residents of our host community languish in extreme hunger, without
making efforts to cushion their sufferings.
"Lockdown without food is a knock down; that is why we took
necessary steps to ensure that everyone benefited from our food distribution
exercise," Dr. Onwmere, further explained.
The Managing Director of PWAN Plus business concerns limited, an
affiliate company with the PWAN Group, who coordinated exercise, Julius
Oyedemy, added; "The essence is to support the Federal government in
spreading help to the unreached. As an organisation, we are targeting to
reaching out to over 1000 families and suffering masses who cannot afford food
at this critical time of COVID-19 pandemic."
Oyedemi explained that, the exercised, which began on
April 25 in Sangotedo, would be replicated in over 15 communities in
Eti-Osa, Ibeju-Lekki, Epe local government areas where PWAN Group is located.
To achieve quality distribution as well as ensure social distancing, the
Group collaborated with Eti-Osa local government officials, the police and
community heads. That conscious arrangement reduced the scramble for the food
stuff to a harmless to small groups of residents eager to grab a piece of the
generous package.
"What we are doing is also a kind of Corporate Social
Responsibility(CSR) to the communities to touch lives at this point in time
where people are hungry.
"We have rice, cartons of noodles, vegetable oil, tin tomatoes to
share for people to feed during these trying times," the Group Executive
Managing Director, Afam Okonkwo, said.
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