Ooni, Ozolua partner to tackle malnutrition in Africa
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has partnered with the Empower 54, a non-profit organization, to create awareness and promote solutions to end malnutrition in Africa, which currently kills 2.3 million children annually in Nigeria. The Empower 54 is a US non-profit organization providing humanitarian assistance since 2003 through health, education, […]
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has partnered with the Empower 54, a non-profit organization, to create awareness and promote solutions to end malnutrition in Africa, which currently kills 2.3 million children annually in Nigeria.
The Empower 54 is a US non-profit organization providing humanitarian assistance since 2003 through health, education, empowerment, and IDP/refugee programs to underprivileged Africans.
The founder and President of the organisation, Princess Modupe Ozolua, said that the Ooni’s dedication to humanity led him to agree to support the campaign to eradicate malnutrition in Africa.
She said “After Empower 54 evacuated the severely malnourished IDP children from Bama to Maiduguri on June 13th and June15th 2016 we realized more has to be done to save children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) beyond evacuating them from high risk zones for treatment. There are countless non-IDP children suffering from SAM all over Nigeria and other parts of Africa that also need help.”
“As the Co-Chairman of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTRN), we require holistic and systematic global blended approach in addressing the shade of malnutrition in Africa. I recognize and applaud months of intervention of Empower 54 in subjugating the spread of malnutrition in Nigeria and across Africa. Therefore, in an effort to forge greater participation, it is my sheer commitment and other global partners to advocate alongside the long-term collective aspirations of Empower 54 in championing malnutrition extinction roadmap in Africa,” Ooni was quoted as saying.
Ozolua said that her organisation will work closely with the Ooni’s Global Outreach Initiative, on strategies for his role as Empower 54’s International goodwill Ambassador to end malnutrition in Africa.