By Adekunle Williams
Ikeja – Arik Air on Tuesday donated assorted foods, clothes and other materials to the children of the Save Our Soul (SOS) Children’s Village in Isolo area of Lagos.
Presenting the items on behalf of the airline, Mr Andrew Odion, the Airline’s Head of Marketing, Central West Africa, said this was to enable children of the village to enjoy the Christmas and New Year festivities.
Odion said that the donation was the airline’s gesture of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to give back to the less privileged in the society.
“As a socially responsible organisation, we want to touch the lives of children and the less privileged in our society.
“We identify with the significance of this season which is a day of giving love, attention, affection to children all over the world, and helping in charting a greater path to their development.
“This is why we are here to donate some items to children of this village for Christmas and New Year festival.
“This is not the first time the airline will be donating these items to the orphanage home and also the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country,” he said.
Odion noted that the airline had on Sunday donated some relief materials to the Yola IDPs.
The airline official said it would also be at the Love Home Orphanage in Magodo, Lagos, on Wednesday to donate same items to the children.
He said the company would be in Benin on Thursday and Jos by next week to celebrate the festive period in the orphanage home and donate some items to them.
Odion said the donation was an internal arrangement by the company, adding that the airline had a budget that takes care of those expenditure.
Receiving the items on behalf of the orphanage, an official at the Customers Service/Front Desk Personnel, who pledged anonymity, thanked Arik Air for the kind gesture and show of love.
(NAN)
