Foundation Gives Free Medical Check Up To Elder People In Edo ...Urged them To Love One Another

Foundation Gives Free Medical Check Up To Elder People In Edo 

...Urged them To Love One Another 

Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin 

As the economy reality of the country bit harder, and there is the need to help the community to reduce the high cost of medical bills, the Chairman, DAGOMO Foundation Nigeria Limited, Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, MFR, said the Foundation was set up to help provide medical assistance and excerise fitness to the elderly people in Benin city.

She made the statements in commemoration to mark her late parents remembrance, late Survivor Daniel Aiyanyor Omoigui and late Barrister (Mrs.) Grace Omogui, in Benin city, Edo state, said that is what they can do to help the community.

The former Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue, Omoigui said other reasons for setting up the Foundation is to learn good values and care for others in the community as they grow older.

She also urged the elderly people to love one another and promised to improve on their caring every year.

"The foundation was set up to help the community and also to learn certain values, to care for others and people as they grow older. It is Cama law. If you care for others they care for you. If you build a society that doesn't care, you will be the victim of such a society.

" We noticed that things are getting hard and difficult to people so that spirit was dieing. It is vital that as we bridge the gap between the old and the young , we can also demonstrate the spirit of caring for others.

" We do not have to know them before we help. We hope that through this kind of activities. We will  share the learning of the older persons with the younger persons to build values. Hopefully, we will build a more better society," she asserted.

According to her, she said  Dagomo Foundation Nigeria Limited was set up by her and her siblings to honour their late parents, late Survivor Daniel Aiyanyor Omoigui and Barrister (Mrs.) Grace Onaiwu Omogui.

She said they have been giving the free medical check up to the community over 12 years, while the aging games started four years ago, and added that her mother died nine years ago.

She explained," " We set up a foundation known as; Dagomo Foundation Nigeria Limited with my siblings to honour our parents, late Survivor Daniel Aiyanyor Omoigui and Barrister (Mrs.) Grace Onaiwu Omogui.

"The foundation was set up to help the community, and we thank God for their lives, and what we can do to support the community. So my mother who died nine years ago, in thinking true what we should do to help the community.

" As she was getting older realise that the environment has not really carter for the elders. So we started with a focus on elder care. We also realised that as we focus on elder care that there are things that elders are learning late, that the youths needed to learn early.

" So that as they get older, they will not advocate for things that they have not learn as a habit. So will we shifted our focus as a foundation from just the elderly for what we called elderly aging. So it carter for everybody but from aging perspective . We still take care of the elderly, so today is an elderly fun day.

" It is also very important we have intergenerational learning so that is why we want to mix the youths with the elderly so that they can learn from the mistakes,failures of learnings of the elders, and not have to repeat the same mistakes," Omoigui stated.

She disclosed that, they are open to partnership to make local wise, but there must be somebody in the locality that would drive the idea. She said they hope the idea become a movement and also important for the younger people to drive the concept and make it grows and sustainable.

Speaking at the event, the National Vice President, Elder Association of Nigeria, Chief Eddy Ogbomo, advised the elderly people not to depend on their children that they can still be useful by doing something for themselves.

He lamented that elderly people are very difficult to deal with because of the nature of their old age.

Chief Ogbomo promised to partner with Dagomo Foundation Nigeria limited to enable them care for the elderly people in Edo state. He told the elderly people that if they want to leave long they should try and forgive if they were offended.

Some of the elders that spoke, Comrade Goodluck Imonitie, said he is one of the beneficiary of the Foundation since the inception of the foundation. 

He thanked the founder of the Foundation and the children for sustaining the project and prayed God to give them wisdom and knowledge to keep the project alive.

He said it is not easy for old people to come and received medical treatment and advise concerning their health.

Taking all the elders through regular exercise, a certified physical instructor, Andy Okosun, said the elders need more exercise to keep their body fit.

Okosun told the elders that anytime they finish eating they should do some exercise to make their body fit after taking them through practical experience at the event.