About 10,000 children to get Christmas dresses in Ekiti

The governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose has disclosed that 10,000 children will be given dresses during the yuletide season.

Highlights: The sewing and distribution of the clothes would take place in designated centres across the 16 local government areas of the state.

  • The governor said he would buy 100 sewing machines to complement those to be used by volunteer tailors during the exercise. The 100 sewing machines would later be given out to tailors through a transparent balloting process.
  • When we were young, we always looked forward to the Christmas and New Year festivities that at least our parents would buy clothes for us. But with the prevailing economic situation in the country, some parents may not be able to do that and we felt we can help to bridge such gap.
  • The exercise is part of our Stomach Infrastructure Programme and we have to take care of the needs or our people and make them happy. Also, it is a kind of financial empowerment for our people as we are buying all the materials here. We are also going to give the volunteer tailors some stipends during the exercise.
  • At the end of the exercise, some of the tailors will go home with sewing machines. In Ado-Ekiti, we are projecting to have five centres and maybe two in Ikere and one each in other local government areas,” he said.
  • Fayose said only children between the ages of one to 10 would benefit from the exercise and that it would be first come first served.
  • The Patron of tailors in Ado-Ekiti, Mrs Omodele Famuyibo said, “This has not happened in our state before and it shows the kindheartedness of our governor. Truly, with the economic crunch in the country, many parents are incapable of buying clothes for their children during the Yuletide season and this is a helping hand from the governor. May God bless our governor and take him to higher heights.
  • Also, the Chairman of the Tailors Association, Mr Aderemi Jimoh said, “He is not only helping the children, he is empowering and helping is too. How many people come to sew clothes nowadays? We are happy that we won’t just sit down idle during the festive period as we will have work to do too.”
  • At least 250 tailors are expected to be part of the exercise which would start mid-December.

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  1. Let’s hope and pray to Almight Jehovah that these must not be a GREEK GIFT in exchange for untimely graveyard As Comedian EkitiGate Fayose is desperate to avoid Potential Kuje Prison on or before, after 2018/19 by all means as There is plan B by COMEDIAN FAYOSE to flee the country less than 24hr to his handover date.

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