With its fairyland of colorful lights, smell of pine needles, and smiles of excited children, the Christmas season is one of joy and happiness – and at least 200 children and women living in a slum in Nigeria did not miss out on it.
Development Diaries reports that hundreds of the children could not contain their joy as they came out of their shanties en masse to attend a modest Christmas party at the Zhigbodo slum in the Kuje area of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
One of the children, Ezekiel, said it was like a dream come true for him, as they hardly experience Christmas celebrations in the community.
Christmas goes beyond giving presents. It is an opportunity to express love to our children, our parents and grandparents, to all family members, to friends and even to strangers.
That is what the Still Waters Foundation in Nigeria has done by ensuring the children and women had a 2023 Christmas to remember.
‘We are celebrating Christmas with the children; we choose to reach out to the poor’, founder of the foundation, Femi Lanre-Oke, said at the gathering tagged ‘Project Make Someone Smile’.
‘We have shown love to the people today and also let them know that Christ was born today and that means love all round’.
Photo source: Shkumbin Saneja
