In style philanthropist and ‘Chess in Slum’ convener, Tunde Onakoya, has shared the transformation of a younger fish hawker he rescued from a slum in Ikorodu, Lagos state, and enrolled at school.
Taking to Twitter, Tunde narrated how he met the younger lady having fish on the streets two years in the past and determined to present her an opportunity at a greater life.
He stated he adopted her as his baby, put her by means of three months remedy as a result of she had been sexually abused by a 40-year-old man, and enrolled her in a faculty.
Tunde shared footage of the younger lady whom he recognized as Odunayo and wrote,
“At present makes it precisely two years since I met Odunayo hawking fish on the streets of majidun Ikorodu together with her little brother.
Quite a bit has occurred since then, however two weeks in the past, she accomplished her first 12 months of college and handed her examinations?
This was the primary time Shedrach introduced each of them to my home?.
God bless you Shedrach, plenty of this is able to have been inconceivable with out your variety efforts.
I keep in mind how I might all the time go to their home for the primary few weeks to show them chess and primary literacy. She had been a sufferer of sexual abuse from a 40year outdated pedophile in that group.
It was on today I swore to be part of lives and maintain them protected endlessly.
Odunayo had been by means of such a turbulent childhood that we needed to put her by means of 3 months of remedy and counseling earlier than she may belief/discuss to anybody once more.
She’s now rising right into a younger assured Girl who likes to play chess and video video games.
She’s additionally very within the Arts and is an energetic member of the cultural dance membership in her college and church.
Her dream is to be a performer and she or he as soon as informed me that Lateef Adedimeji (Ayinla)was her favourite actor.
So i invited him to return inform her these desires are legitimate?
Odunayo and her brother lived with me for the primary one 12 months since I adopted each of them, however after someday I noticed she wanted motherly care that I couldn’t give. My Mum took on that accountability and she or he has lived with my dad and mom in Ibadan ever since then.
Again in January, she was concerned in a horrible Automobile accident on her manner again from college and was in ICU for weeks.
This second broke me and my dad and mom.
It was a scary time for all of us,as an act of kindness may have simply turn into a darkish story of remorse if she had misplaced her life”
See his tweet beneath,
At present makes it precisely two years since I met Odunayo hawking fish on the streets of majidun Ikorodu together with her little brother.
Quite a bit has occurred since then, however two weeks in the past, she accomplished her first 12 months of college and handed her examinations?A thread… pic.twitter.com/4FuC9iVknd
— Tunde Onakoya (@Tunde_OD) August 19, 2022
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