It was all smiles and jubilation among inmates of three charity homes in Imo State on Thursday, April 24, 2014 when management and staff of the Owerri Capital Development Authority (OCDA) drove into their premises with lots of food stuff, drinks, toiletries etc., to enhance their well-being.

The places visited were: Owerri Motherless Babies Home, Okwelle Motherless Babies Home and Orlu Cheshire Home.

The visit was the brain child of the new General Manager of the Authority, Barr. Chima Anozie to enable these less privileged enjoy the Easter festivity.

The gifts donated included: babies’ food, bags of rice, pampers, toiletries, indomie, milk, tubers of yam, fruit juice, cartons of biscuits, baby napkins etc.

In addition to foodstuff and other provisions, the OCDA workers gave a cash donation of N50,000 to each of the charity homes.

Speaking at each of the places, the General Manager of OCDA who personally led the visits explained that the gifts and cash were the proceeds of the offerings to God collected from workers during the 12 noon prayer sessions of the establishment as directed by the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha.

He recalled that on assumption of office, Governor Okorocha directed every Ministry, Department and Agency to hold a 10-minutes prayer at 12 noon each work day in order to commit Imo State in the hands of God.

According to the OCDA Chief Executive, staff of the Authority made it a point of duty to adhere strictly to the directive from Monday to Friday.

Barr. Anozie further disclosed that the staff of OCDA usually hold morning devotions every Monday and Friday. He stated that at the end of each prayer session, offerings were collected. What was collected during the period of Lent amounted to N300,000 (three hundred thousand Naira). It was this amount that was shared among the three charity homes for the purchase of food stuffs and other items including N50,000 cash donation to each home.

Our correspondent gathered that at each of the charity homes, the OCDA staff and management prayed with the inmates and charged the children to be of good behaviour.

The officers in-charge of each of the places visited expressed immense gratitude to OCDA staff and management for remembering them and prayed to God to replenish the purse of their benefactors.

At Orlu Cheshire Home, the visitors found out that there were two groups of the less privileged within the same premises namely: the mentally retarded and the physically challenged and therefore had to share what they brought between the two. It would be recalled that one of the mentally retarded led an emotion-packed prayer for their benefactors.

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