Children of all ages deserve to live their very best lives, regardless of any challenges they have; physical or otherwise. This is why STANBIC IBTC has the “Together For A Limb” annual initiative, to support children who have had their limbs amputated as a result of accidents, diseases or bomb blasts, by providing them with fitted artificial limbs.
1. This adorable little boy’s parents were unable to afford the expensive but necessary prosthetics he really needed. Now, look at him go!
2. Here are some of the kids learning to move with their new prostheses. It’s a slow, sometimes difficult process but these children are determined and they are doing very well!
3. A keke driver crushed Usman’s foot and part of his leg. But now, look at this adorable little footballer!
4. 3 year old Chinonye was born with a birth defect on her right leg and that made fitting in at school difficult. Now it’s different! She looks ready to take on the world!
5. Goni was gunned down in Maiduguri and was so badly injured, his leg had to be amputated. Now, he’s moving!
Here is a video showing the difference the much needed prosthetics makes in these kids lives.
In addition to providing them with much needed prosthetic limbs, STANBIC IBTC also provides some of the children with educational trust funds to ensure they get an excellent education and have the opportunity to be the very best they can be.
The next drive for “Together With A Limb” is happening on September 24, 2016 and it promises to be an amazing and rewarding experience.
1. When all your married friends with kids see you as a free nanny.
Are these ones okay at all?
2. When the children you are babysitting don’t like you.
“You people don’t have good taste.”
3. When one of the children you are babysitting wets herself.
.Ah!
4. Then the younger sibling now poops on himself right after!
What kind of wahala is this?
5. When they start crying for their parents.
Me sef I want your parents to come back!
6. When you take them out and one goes missing in the shop.
That is how they will say you lost somebody’s child!
7. When they start complaining that they’re hungry.
Eat me oh!
8. When after you finish cooking they tell you they don’t like what you cooked.
What does that one mean?
9. When their parents finally come and carry them away.
Thank God!
10. The next time anyone asks you to babysit, you’re like:
6. To give them something to brag about in public.
They will still shout on you at home sha.
7. To open their email.
Even though you’ve showed them how to do it a million times.
8. To go and find their brown shoe in the Ghana-must-go bag.
Hay God!
9. To help them with their phone.
Am I computer village?
10. To wake them up when they fall asleep watching news.
Even thought they will say they are not sleeping.
11. To help them type that text they want to send.
All. The. Time.
12. To “go and open the gate”.
See me doing gateman work.
13. To make sure the house is clean before they get home.
The worst!
14. To drive them up and down.
See my life.
15. To help them “browse the internet”.
…and by internet they mean Facebook.
1. Themselves when they were your age.
I’ve heard. You always came first.
2. Your classmate that “doesn’t have two heads.”
Na wa.
3. Your friend that always kneels down to greet them when she comes to visit.
On top small greeting?
4. Your sister that graduated with a first class.
What’s my own?
5. Maryam that got a full scholarship to go and study abroad.
Hay God!
6. Your neighbour’s daughter who is now a doctor.
Can I hear word?
7. Mrs. Owolabi’s son who has a Masters degree and is working in oil.
Kidnap him na.
8. Your first cousin that is about to finish his PhD.
Ehen?
9. The Imam’s daughter that always wears her hijab.
What is it sef?
10. Pastor Bankole’s son who is a worker in Church.
Chineke!
11. Your cousin Dami who has already married.
Na she sabi.
12. Your family friend that has already given her parents a grandchild.
Am I her?
13. Emeka that just bought his mother a tear rubber car.
Go and adopt him na.
Sure, the world may be changing and times moving fast. Cultures that were snubbed in the past are slowly becoming recognised and accepted. However, a hidden prejudice towards Africans (black people generally) still exists today, whether we like it or not.
This was shown by the airport security at the Duesseldorf airport.
Belgium-based politician and activist, Assanta Kanko, who is originally from Burkina Faso was embarrassed when the airport security insisted on questioning her mixed race daughter.
The politician who is married to a Belgian man took to Twitter to share her ordeal.
According to her, after presenting all necessary documents with fingerprints, the security man asked her 8 year old daughter, “Is this really your mama?”.
Apparently, this is not a new thing. Popular Nigerian writer, Chika Unigwe sympathised with her and shared her own experience.
@Assita_Kanko lol. I've been asked that at the airport (in Atlanta, I think). It must be something in the airport police handbook 🙂 🙂
Agreed, kidnapping and abduction of children is a global problem. However, smarter and less embarrassing checks should be devised because there are many mixed race children in the world.
