In order to accelerate the actualization of the 2030 United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), Arise Foundation, a non-governmental Organization through its activities, is propelling women to economic growth and power.
To kick off its Arise Women
Conference 2022, Pastor (Dr) Siju Iluyomade, the Founder and Convener of the
NGO, addressed the press to intimate them about the activities of the
programme tagged ‘By Appointment’
(#appointedtolive).
According to her the topic
was chosen deliberately because “Arise is a transformational agenda, an
ideology of passing on from one generation to another most particularly in our
country Nigeria”.
She revealed that Nigeria
has so many gifting, talents and others that we are not utilizing including the
UN SDGs. “Women are not utilized enough, as they are major economic force and
power in Nigeria. Arise focuses on
wealth creation, preventive healthcare, skills acquisition, through which women
are trained, learn how to make money, be economically viable and take care of
themselves, sustain their families, collaborate with their spouses and ensure
they get good life”.
To Pastor (Dr) Iluyomade,
the future belongs to only those who believe in the beauty of their dreams and
“it’s time to dream, time for Nigerians to come out of lethargy which has kept
us for centuries. It is time for consistency, for us to explode and expand our vision and keep
pushing it. There are a lot of things women can do and they do a lot better if
given a chance”.
Arise is very keen on the SDGs. “These goals
are very necessary and were developed by the UN to make sure we have a good
sustainable society. Sustainability is
continued progress for every sphere. Good health and wellbeing are paramount as
this lead to long life, better time to enjoy your wealth. It is important that
everyone keys into preventive healthcare. Arise Foundation was the first and
only organization/individual, outside government given the right to administer
COVID-19 vaccinations on people. The Foundation worked tirelessly with
isolation centres to reduce mortality rate during the pandemic period, and as
the vaccine came out they took it to market places sensitizing people on why
they should take the vaccine.
She stated that main part of
the activities of Arise Women Conference 22 is Preventive Healthcare. “The
essence of life is good living, we are particular about everyone regardless of
their colour, tribe, religion, being able to feed, and cloth, earn money, live
fruitful life, therefore one of the great efforts of the Arise Foundation, is
about preventive healthcare”.
“It is time for us as a nation, to quit
talking and begin to do. Why are we interested in preventive healthcare? It is
easier for us to major on preventive healthcare than curative healthcare;
people prefer to act reactively than act pro-actively”.
If you act pro-actively you
will ensure that you don’t get sick, prevent yourself from falling ill and
spend less money on healthcare, as a nation we’ll spend far less money if
people will be able to prevent diseases by doing simple exercises like walking,
which has so many benefits like improve heart, reduce stress and anxiety,
strengthen muscles and bones, improves the mood among others killer diseases
and give them richer and better life. This is why Arise is putting walking into
the lifestyle of Nigerians to increase their life expectancy”.
Other activities of the
event include Arise Walk on October 15, 2022 ;
prior to that the maiden edition of Golf competition was held on Friday,
October 8, 2022 and was graced by 128 professional golfers who played at the
Ikoyi Club 1938. A football tournament will be held on October 14 at Mobolaji
Johnson Stadium, where veteran football legends who brought glory to Nigeria,
are going to play. The likes of Peter Rufai, Daniel Amokachi, Augustine
Eguavon, Uche Okechukwu, Samson Siasia, Alloy Agu, Victor Ikpeba, Mutiu
Adepoju, Tijani Babangida, Garba Lawal, Austin Okocha, Kanu Nwankwo, Taribo
West, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Ann Chiejine and others.
There will also be talent
hunt for people who will play football and take Nigeria to greater glory. The
grand finale will be the Arise Women Conference on Saturday October 29,2022.
Pastor (Dr) Iluyomade
thanked Lagos State government, men and women of infleunce, who break the glass
ceilings to ensure that the foundation are able to provide qualitative education
to everybody, every child in Nigeria. “Our aim is to achieve the 12 pillars of
the UN SDGs and we have made progress in them.
Arise Community Impact
programmes include but not limited to; Arise Women Conference, IDP Camp
Outreaches, Arise Ink Bucket, Arise Goes to School Initiatives, Arise Out-patient and Medical
Outreaches, Arise Skills Acquisition and Empowerment Programme, Building Women
Leaders (WILs), Arise Adopt A Village, Building of Computerized Library,
community boreholes, ultra-modern hospital, Arise Community Insurance Scheme
among others.
The convener charged
Nigerians to come together as a unit to work for the progress of the nation,
maintaining that Arise Foundation is not denominational as the organization
will work for anyone not minding wherever the person lives and whoever the
person is.
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