The Affiliation of Benue State Orphans has offered an award of benefit to Makurdi-based businessman, Chief Nnaemeka Eyah, in recognition of his philanthropic help to orphans and the susceptible within the state.
The “Ambassador of Orphans” award was conferred on Eyah, an indigene of Enugu State and a former banker, on the premises of Zimba Orange Assets and Administration Restricted in Makurdi.
Presenting the award, Emmanuel Shawon, President of the affiliation, mentioned the honour was to acknowledge Eyah’s dedication to the schooling and welfare of orphans.
He mentioned: “The affiliation received to know that he’s paying faculty charges for a lot of orphans. He doesn’t publicise it, however we discovered him out. We recognise folks to encourage them, and in order that others may also emulate them. The world could be a greater place if folks did as Eyah does.”
Shawon disclosed that many orphans in Benue are at present on scholarship via the businessman’s help.
Responding, Eyah expressed gratitude for the popularity. He mentioned he didn’t count on such an award and pledged to do extra to help orphans and widows as his assets would permit.
Talking with The Guardian after the ceremony, he added: “I get pleasure from lifting folks up, to place a smile on folks’s faces. Kindness and philanthropy is my very own faith.”
On how he funds his humanitarian efforts, the philanthropist mentioned proceeds from his enterprise maintain his interventions. He additionally revealed that he offers start-up capital to widows and the susceptible to allow them to have interaction in petty buying and selling, obtain self-reliance and stay with dignity.
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