In a bid to address the state of well-being of the people of Ojo Local Council of Lagos State, Olawale Aganga-Williams has established the Olawale Aganga-Williams Foundation (OAW).
This was displayed recently when the businessman, along with members of the Local Council, met with thousand of members from the community comprising of nursing mothers, widows, young adults and the aged, who received different food palliatives from the convener and his associates under the foundation’s FoodBank Initiative.
Aganga-Williams, who hails from the Ojo Federal Constituency, said the foundation was created to give the people who have been victims of poverty, bad roads and poor infrastructure development, a better life, having mapped out different measures to address their challenges.
Addressing the gathering, he said, “ I am very passionate about the well-being of our people, because I know and share in our pains especially in our present Nigeria. The desire to impact and give back to the community birthed the Olawale Aganga-Willams Foundation, which is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation founded on the need to provide an atmosphere where Nigerians are secure and prosperous. It is my wish and desire for Nigeria to be secure and free of poverty.”
He informed that the foundation’s main objective is to provide empowerment for the communities by providing training opportunities where skills can be learned, jobs for job seekers, education for children and youths and scholarships for the underprivileged.
“There is mass unemployment and poverty in Nigeria today, so at OAW Foundation we are providing opportunities for people to live better lives by empowering men and women with the right skills that would make them employable and employers of labour. This we believe will help to eradicate poverty which would ultimately lead to Nigeria’s economic growth.”
One of the participants, who received food palliatives from the foundation, Mrs Kudirat Alimi, a petty trader and mother of two, said the coming of the OAW Foundation to the Ojo community is timely, as they had looked forward to such an initiative there will provide pipe-borne water to community and scholarships to young people who wants to get educated and be responsible in the society.
She appreciated Hon Aganga-Wiliams for this gesture and expects the fulfillment of his promises on alleviating poverty from the people of Ojo community.
Another resident, Anita Udoh-Ojo, a young widow, who lost her husband to the cold hands of armed-robbers last year, said she is hopeful that the foundation will assit her with some fund to support her business and take care of her six-month old baby.
