House Minority Leader donates 150 bed-sitter dormitories to orphanage in Delta

The Minority Leader of House of Representatives and Member Representing Isoko Federal Constituency, Hon. Leo Ogor, has donated a-150 bed-sitter dormitory built by him and his family to the Human Welfare for Empowerment and Development Initiative (HWEDI), Irri in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State.

The Multi Million Naira building furnished with double beds and various facilities was commissioned by the immediate past Secretary to the Delta State Government, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay, who lauded the philanthropic gestures exhibited by the Federal Lawmaker.

Speaking during the Commissioning, Com Macaulay said he had the intention of building the same dormitory but could not due to pressures of work, but expressed joy that Hon. Leo Ogor has accomplished it for the Orphans.

“I have been involving myself in giving alms to the orphans for many years but the dream to build an orphanage dormitory as this one has not been met due to series of events while in government. But today, with the help of my friend and brother it has come to pass” he said.

Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay commissioning the dormitory

Earlier, the Patron of Human Welfare for Empowerment and Development Initiative (HWEDI) Hon. Leo Ogor said individuals should demonstrate special concern for this group of persons because they are helpless and therefore very vulnerable.

He vowed that as long as God continue to protect and keep him alive, his assistance to the development of the place will continue. “Life is tough for children with parents, so the plight of those without parents can only be imagined,’’ he opined.

He said the dormitory would assist the orphans to restore the hope they lost, speaking to journalists shortly after the commissioning of the project, Ogor said that the society should assist them because their view about the society was always negative due to the trauma they went through.

While narrating what motivated him to carry out such benevolent works, he said he has always placed himself on the receiving end but having seen himself in the place God has placed him in the society today through the mandate given to him by Isoko federal constituents, he is left with no other option but to replicate such gesture to the society.  

High point of the ceremony was the commissioning of the building and more pledges to the development of the orphanage.

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