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| Ooni of Ife & Modupe Ozolua. |
His Imperial Majesty, Oonirisa Adeyeye Enitan
Ogunwusi Ojaja II, The Ooni of Ife, has partnered with 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.
Empower 54 Project Inc
(Empower 54) is a US non-profit organization providing humanitarian assistance since
2003 through health, education, empowerment, and IDP/refugee programs to
underprivileged Africans.
According to the Founder and
President of Empower 54, Princess Modupe Ozolua, Nigeria’s Minister of Health
has declared that “one-third, 33% of Nigerian Children under 5 years old suffer
from chronic malnutrition” which translates into very disturbing statistics and
many innocent lives lost due to lack of sensitization on early management of
malnutrition and accessibility to free treatment.
Princess Ozolua further
states: “After Empower 54 evacuated the severely malnourished IDP children from
Bama to Maiduguri on June 13th and 15th 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.”
Due to His Imperial Majesty’s
dedication to humanity, it’s with great honor that he has agreed to lend his
voice and passion to the campaign to eradicate malnutrition in Africa, starting
in the countries Princess Ozolua further states: “Empower 54 currently work in;
Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
His Imperial Majesty supports
Empower 54’s forward thinking and lives changing initiative by stating: “The
menace of malnutrition is creeping deeper into the fabric of our society and we
must be tenacious in our fight against this colossal beast by creating a better
mechanism; adopt policies and strategies that are capable of combating its
rapid expansion. Africa is the wealth of the world with huge human and natural
resources and we must form a consensus that would scale up nutrition projects
for the greater developments of future leaders that are being crippled daily by
our collective negligence.”
He further
states: “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.”
Empower 54 will be working closely with His Majesty’s
organization, Global Outreach (Ooni of Ife Global Outreach) Initiative, on
strategies for his role as Empower 54’s International goodwill Ambassador to
end malnutrition in Africa.
As a global goodwill
ambassador for Empower 54, The Ooni of Ife joins His Emeritus Archbishop
Desmond Tutu (Patron of Empower 54) and Hollywood actress, Kat Graham (Empower
54’s goodwill ambassador for IDPs/Refugees) to work towards impacting lives of
underprivileged Africans.
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