Ubani made the call in Lagos last week, at a press conference to announce the formal launching of his Foun-dation ‘Onyeckachi Ubani Foundation (OUF) slated to hold at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja on August 6, 2016. According to him, the passion for charity and the desire to help fellow individuals and Nigerians are the motivation behind the setting up of the foundation. He stated that over 120 million Nigerians are cur-rently living below the poverty line and the number is rowing daily. At over 60% and count-ing, the soul of our nation is under the siege of hunger and deprivation. People are hungry and they need help now. “While I must commend President Muhammadu Buhari for his dogged fight against corruption. It is equally important and urgent for all Nigerians to support, unreservedly, our President’s anti-corruption war. After all, corruption brought us to where we have found ourselves today. But as individuals, at our different levels, as neighbours, friends and families, we need to be there and stand by each other to help the weak in our midst, m this trying times of our history as a nation and as a people. It is when we come to the aid of the weak among us that we are strong together”, he noted. According to the former NBA chairman, the launch of the foundation is a privilege to serve humanity and save the souls of the poor and less privileged Nigerians who have been battered and broken by the harsh realities of life. “So, that day is to appre-ciate all the opportunities God has given me to lift the downtrodden from the throes of poverty to another level. It is not about me; it is about them. It is about those Ni-gerians whose lives have been transformed by the little seed I sowed to save them from their predicament The passion to sustain this humanitarian initiative is what has given birth to the Foundation which will be launched formally on the 6th of August 2016. “There is a limit to how. many Nigerians I can, per-sonally, help with my limited resources. But mobilising friends, other individuals and institutions, public and private, local and foreign, there is no limit to what we can achieve. “In other words, we can create a system that would work for the majority. My joy and my ambition, there-fore, are to see millions of Nigerians delivered from the indignity of poverty, want, lack and clepnvation,” Ubani explained. According to him, the foundation will run pro-grammes in four different areas, which includes the youth literacy Initiative geared towards ensuring that every young person can read, write and solve the most fundamental and basic life questions. The youth creativity and media forum’s major goal is to raise a new generation of young people who can dare to dream and believe in the unseen possibilities that await them in life. Other areas are men of standard, a skills acquisition program targeted specifically at men who by reason of circumstance, have found themselves unable and ill equipped to provide for themselves and for their families because they lack particular skills in order to be gainfully employed or self- employed. Women of substance is another area where women will be trained in courses aimed at equipping them with the skills that can enable them earn a living and put food on their respective tables. He mentioned that the executive governor of Lagos state, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode and other dipitar-ies like Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, NBA President, Augustine Alegeh SAN, Mr. Femi Falana SAN, former overnors, senators and eficiaries of his Founda-tion over the years and so many others are expected to grace the occasion. Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly will deliver the Keynote Address. By: Akinwale Akintunde This Day News ]]>