I HAVE A BURNING PASSION TO SERVE THE LESS PRIVILEGED : YEYE FUNMI LAYINKA

With a great deal of sincerity, love and care and most importantly, fear of God, I have a burning passion to impact positively on the welfare of the less privileged, the orphans, the Youths, the elderly ones and most importantly on Health and Education of our children. That is the main motive behind the initiative of Yeye Funmi Layinka Foundation which I believe it will be a platform through which the desired and sustainable turning around of the lives of the needy in the society can be guaranteed. To a very large extent, it is a realistic instrument designed with the aim of rendering certain free services in the area of education, financial assistance and medical services for different categories of such individuals so as to give them a sense of belonging.
The alarming rate of poverty in our society today, in addition to the undesirable circumstances that surrounds many individuals, particularly the orphans and those that are suffering from one form of perpetual health deformity or the other, calls for passionate concern by the relevant government’s authorities, corporate organisations and well meaning individuals. In advanced societies like UK, India, America and the rest of them, issues bordering on socio-economic wellbeing of the less privileged are always treated with utmost priority. Although, there may be several NGOs in Nigeria but the fact remains that not many of them keep to their conventional social responsibility of assisting the people with some challenges without attaching how much profit he or she stands to derive from it at the end of the day and this scenario strongly negates the aims and objectives of NGOs in totality. Non-Governmental Organisations are supposed to, as much as possible, put profit making agenda aside as they are established to bring the much needed succour to the people.
Today, there seems to be a wider deviation or gap between their set goals (service delivery) and their unfolding realities as over 80% of the stakeholders who are into such ventures which ought to be a vehicle to assist people with financial distress, the elderly, medical services and even educational aid to the less privileged, the orphans as well as those confronted with health deformity, have incidentally converted charity organisations to achieve their self aggrandisement, thereby running them like profit making ventures.
Taking care of the under privileged could be carried out through diverse approaches, it is either through financial aid, provision of free health care services, free education and the rest of them. In Yeye Funmi Layinka Foundation, we are determined to ensure that the welfare of the people, apparently the less privileged in our area are given adequate attention, change the lives of the less privileged children and youths, give them a better future and most especially, to ensure that children in need are not denied opportunity to harness their potentials to the fullest.
 The development of the society does not depend on government alone.
To kick start our programs, we had giving out educational grant to deserving students through IFE Ooye Leo Club when we solely sponsored their quiz and spelling bee competition tagged YEYE FUNMI LAYINKA SECONDARY SCHOOL ACADEMIC COMPETITION,DONATION OF FOOD ITEMS TO THE SPECIAL PEOPLE IN ILE IFÈ,and presently we are embarking of a project Tagged FEED 200 CHILDREN, this project is to celebrate the children with special needs in our community. And sooner, we are embarking on a support grant to our Students in the tertiary institution.