A Nongovernmental Organisation, Engraced Ones Prayer Support, and Advocacy Initiative, EOPSAI, has marked five years anniversary of standing and supporting children with special needs.
The Founder, EOPSAI, Bibora Yinkere, made this known in a statement signed by Communication Officer, EOPSAI, Mayowa Afolabi, saying the organization has been passionate about the condition and future of children with special needs including those with Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, hence has been on advocacy drives, capacity building and embarked on projects to add value to the lives of these vulnerable ones.
According to Yinkere activities regularly embarked upon including open sensitization programs in market places, street corners, religious organizations; public and private schools; courtesy visits to ministries, departments, and agencies; sensitization talks at corporate and private organizations.
For many years till now, members and friends of the organization have celebrated high traffic days like World Cerebral Palsy Day, Down Syndrome Awareness Day and Children’s Day by putting together a 100-man prayer and advocacy walk along the streets of the FCT coupled with other activities.
Those in attendance at the fifth anniversary include resource persons, medical doctors, physiotherapists, special needs parents, religious leaders, psychologists, experts on managing support systems, and of course, persons living with special needs themselves.