Steemit Engagement Challenge Season2 #week1 | Markdown Style Contest: Show an Institution or Charity Place in Your City - Symbol of Hope Foundation
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Introduction
Hello Steemians!
I welcome you all to a beautiful day and a glorious week. It is my prayer that you will receive favor this week as you do your activities for the week. Today marks the beginning of another great and powerful contest on the steemit platform. For those that might not know me, I am Micheal Kehinde from Nigeria.
The contest organized by the steemit team is of no doubt a great and good initiative that keeps increasing the participation and engagement across many communities on the steemit platform. Today, I will be writing about a non profit organization whose aim is to carter for the orphans, motherless and the vulnerable children.
A Non Profit Organization: Symbol of Hope Foundation
The name of the organization I am writing about in this contest is Symbol of Hope Foundation. This organization has been existing for some time now and carrying their duty as scheduled.
History of Symbol of Hope Foundation
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Symbol of Hope Foundation, SHF is an organization that was started to give support to the orphans, motherless and vulnerable children in Nigeria. The organization was founded by Victor Ayoola who hails from Okeho, a town in Oyo State of Nigeria. For so many years, he has been displeased and dissatisfied with the rate at which orphans in the motherless homes and vulnerable children are exposed to risk and any other attack.
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The founder lost his parent at a very tender age, it was very painful and difficult growing up without a mother and this has led to his resolution of doing everything possible in his capacity to support the orphans and the vulnerable children and give them a chance at achieving their vision and purpose in life.
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The organization started officially in 2020 as the founder gathered people of the same vision and organized a program for the orphans in motherless home in Ogbomoso.
Vision and Mission of the Foundation
The organization believe in a just an equitable society where every child belongs to a loving family, where capacity, hope and the opportunity to achieve the desired future can be nurtured and achieved.
The mission of the organization which is derived from its vision of an equitable society is to collaborate with other non profit organization, government agencies and the concerned individuals to ensure that every child is nurtured and catered for.
Symbol of Hope Events and Activities
• Special Party for the Orphans and Motherless
Symbol of Hope Foundation like I have said aimed at giving support to orphans, motherless, vulnerable children and their caretakers. We organize birthday party, Christmas party, and some other special day party for these children.
For example, the picture I unploaded below is one of the picture we took during one of the party we had in the motherless baby center in Ogbomoso. We raised support and bought clothes for the motherless and orphans.
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• Raising of Fund for feeding and enrollment of Orphans in School
By the special grace of God, the organization also raises fund for these children for the feeding and to pay for school fees of many who are school age children. The organization is doing a wonderful job on this as well. Currently, we have one child enrolled in school that the organization is taking care. We are raising support for the child for school fees, uniform and all other things that the child uses in school.
As time goes on, we want to carter for more orphans and motherless in this aspect
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• Organizing Program and Support for Caretakers
Apart from the fact that the organization support the orphans and motherless babies, we also give support to those who take care of them. Many people don't look at this angle, and it is very important to appreciate those who take care of this children as well. We believe that this will motivate them to work more and take care of these children. As part of our vision, we have once organized a celebration party for the caretakers together with the children in one of the orphanage home.
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• Creation of Awareness for Youth and University Students
The organization creates awareness at every point in time among youth and university students on the challenges the Orphans and motherless babies face and the urgent need to reach out to them.
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Our needs at Symbol of Hope Foundation
To be able to reach more orphans and vulnerable children, we need support in cash and kind. We are currently in need of;
volunteers who have expertise in children ministry, education, psychology, music, art and crafts, and entrepreneurship.
Fund for enrollment and tuitions of children in the symbol of Hope program and those we hope to bring in soon.
School and household supply like bags, textbooks, notebooks, shoes, uniform, clothes and food items.
overhead and operational fund.
Conclusion
I am a member of the organization I wrote about in this article and I also serve as part of the board of trustees for the organization as well. We will appreciate your support in any way to our organization.
I invite @fredquantum, @beautybb, @olabillion @jueco @ijelady @focusnow @marajah and patjewell to participate in this contest.
Thank you for reading my article.
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To support people in need requires money, self-sacrificing spirit, volunteers and readiness to assist, from the pictures you shared here, you really impact positively to all of them, thank you for the invite
You are right.
We raise money among ourselves time to time and we seek support from people.
Thank you for engaging
Hello bro, good day,
You have done a great 😃 job in showing us an institutional charity organizations in your city which is the Symbol of Hope Foundation
I also see that this organization was established mainly for to give support to the orphans, motherless and vulnerable children because of what the founder went through at his trender age when he lost his parents. It's always painful losing your parents at a tender age and I can imagine What Mr Victor when through which made him to establish this organization. May God continue to bless him as he helps out the underprivileged people in your city there in Nigeria
Yes. Honestly it is not easy to grow up without having a parent.
His passion to help these children burns always, and I believe we just start at the foundation. Thank you so much for engaging.
This is a wonderful post brother you have done a great job by visiting the foundation and I believe these children will love to see you again so thank for sharing
Thank you, friend. This is just a little we can do for humanity. We should care for the orphans and vulnerable children so that they can amount to something in life.
Thank you for engaging.
Hi @msquaretwins,
You have done a great job by visiting and making a proper review of Symbol of Hope Foundation.It is a home for the orphans,motherless and vulnerable children.There is no doubt that children deserve the best care because they are harmless and helpless.I thank the owner of this foundation Mr Victor Ayoola.
On your own part,you have done a great job by visiting and showing love to the children.What a lovely and compassionate gesture.
Goodluck in the contest!!
Thank you so much for your contribution. Symbol of Hope Foundation is an organization that care for the Orphans and motherless.
Many thanks for reading my article.
You are very much welcome.Goodluck in the contest.
This is a wonderful privilege contest and I'll be glad to participate but I don't have access to an orphanage home in my locality 😔
Ooh! I see. But I think you can write about any institution or organization that give support to orphanage home.
Ok, I'll do just that 💯
Seeing these children without their mothers or knowing their mothers abandoned them gives me the chills. I pray that they'll find the strength to face the society emotionally and turn out to be reputable citizens in the community.
Amen! Sometimes I think how would it have been growing up without parents. The best thing to do for them is to love them and care for them.
Thank you for engaging. It is well appreciated.
This is absolutely beautiful!
Supporting children in needs and the orphans.
I always feels disheartened when ever I hear of new born babies dumped in a bin, buried or flushed into the pit toilet because nowadays they're many orphanages around in different locations of the town.
You guys are doing a great job and I must say I will visit a nearby orphanage
Thanks for this insight
Good luck🙏
You very correct. We need to support these children because they also deserve happy family.
Many thanks for reading my article.
Steem-on!
Wow,
Visiting and supporting an orphanage home requires money but you where able to do that
Keep it up sir
Thank you so much.
That is one of the ways we can care for the orphans and vulnerable children.
The founder from your display, is approachable, kind, social and humble. But, most importantly, i declare him loving. Because, such an act of humanity is rare. Weldone
Yes. He loves babies and this formed part of what motivated him to found the organization.
Thank you for engaging.