SON's New Media Partner; Intellectual Magazine

We are happy to announce Intellectual Magazine as our new media partner in Nigeria.

Intellectual Magazine's primary motive is to continually draw attention to critical education sector issues and encourage healthy debate among stakeholders with the aim of finding sustainable solutions.


It was founded by Mr. Rotimi L. Oyekanmi, a seasoned and widely traveled journalist. He was the head of the Education Desk with Guardian Newspapers, Nigeria for 18 years.



He collaborated with several regional, national, international and non-governmental organisations, including but not limited to: UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, CSACEFA (Civil Society Action Coalition for Education for All), ACTIONAID, the British Council and Exam Ethics International (EEI) on all aspects of education.

He is the first Nigerian journalist to interview the incumbent Director General of UNESCO, Mrs. Irina Bokova and the current Commonwealth Secretary General, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma.

We are proud to be associated with such an inspiring magazine.

To know more about Intellectual Magazine check;
www.intellectualmag.com
@IntellectualMag
 

SON Celebrates Women's Day

                                        

Yesterday, March 8th marked another International Women's Day. Our message to women all over the world was: Women Support Each Other. Stop pulling each other down.

Irrespective of age, religion, social class or race, women the world over should always endeavour to support the other woman in thoughts, words and deeds. As the popular saying goes "United We Stand, Divided We Fall."

 Women need each other to survive and thrive in this world known as a "man's world."

We celebrate all women today. Happy Women's Day!!!

YES; SON's New Partner

Your Essential Store (YES)  just became our new partner! We're grateful to God for starting the year on a good note.

Food items, toiletries and other basic necessities were donated to S.O.N last Friday, February 27th 2015. This is the beginning of a fruitful partnership.

These items will be distributed to beneficiaries of our projects geared towards poverty alleviation.

Thank you to the management of YES (located on 21 road Festac Town and Ikorodu, Lagos) for believing in our dream of making the world a better place for the disadvantaged; one child at a time.

One Wish Granted Project

December 29th 2014 was very memorable for us as we were able to grant the wish of a little disadvantaged girl, Lateefah.

She was full of smiles and excitement as she cut her birthday cake surrounded by friends and family.







6 year old Lateefah has never had the opportunity to celebrate her birthday. She lost her parents at age 3 and since then, she has been living with her old grandparents who can barely afford to feed her
along with her siblings.

A very big THANK YOU to Prisca of Cayla Cakes, Lagos, for donating Lateefah's beautiful cake.

                                                                

We hope to grant the wishes of other disadvantaged children. Please join us in making a child's dream come true.

Visit our website to donate: www.saveourneedy.org OR contact us:
saveourneedy@gmail.com
Tel: +234 9025600734

Save Our Needy Plays Santa To Disadvantaged Families

From Dec 21st to 28th, we played Santa to 7 disadvantaged families in
the spirit of Christmas. These families have never had cause to
celebrate the Yuletide season due to financial constraints and other unfortunate circumstances.

It was exciting and fulfilling as the SON team visited the beneficiaries in their homes and brought them love and cheer in form of food items, clothing, toiletries and gifts for the kids.

The beneficiaries particularly single mothers and widows as well as their children were full of gratitude for the love they got from us.


 


We sincerely thank Stella Dimoko Korkus, arguably Nigeria's favorite blogger for using her blog as a medium to support this project.  We will also like to thank Mr. Andrew O. Akindele and an anonymous donor under the alias of "bosslordd" for financially contributing to the success of this project. May the good Lord continue to bless you and replenish your pockets. Amen!!!

http://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2014/11/in-house-news-today_24.html

http://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2014/12/tuesday-in-house-news_23.html?m=1

Please visit our website to check out our other projects and events.
You can also contribute, support or donate to any of our numerous
projects: www.saveourneedy.org OR contact us: saveourneedy@gmail.com
Tel: +234 9025600734

God bless you.

Verdant Zeal Supports Save Our Needy

We are happy to announce we have a new partner! The staff of Verdant Zeal, a Communications company, donated used clothes to the Save Our Needy team last week Friday, November 27th 2014. The clothes received will be given to disadvantaged and needy people in the course of SON's outreach programs.

Save Our Needy Celebrates World AIDS Day

We joined the world in celebrating World AIDS Day on Monday, December 1st.

One of the main objectives of Save Our Needy is to create awareness
for killer diseases including HIV and AIDS, and also provide support
(financial and material) to disadvantaged people particularly youth
and women suffering from these diseases.

For this reason, the S.O.N team reached out on World AIDS Day to young
people and women in Ojo, a neighborhood in Lagos State. Flyers,
condoms (male and female) and t-shirts were distributed to people (
sex workers,students, market women, etc) to mark the day.

AIDS is Still Taking Lives. Protect yourself. "Get Condomised." Say NO
to Multiple Sex Partners.

Remember...Safe sex is good but Abstinence is better.