The incredible people at Global Initiative for Peace Love
and Care (GIPLC) an NGO based in Abuja with a strong bias for orphans and
vulnerable children are doing a great job and I wanted to shared something
phenomenal they did recently - the case of Okikijesu Olawuyi.
Okiki was born in May 11 2010 without more than half of her
skull. A rare medical condition called Congenital Cranial Deficiency.
All of the hospitals visited by their organisation home and
abroad could not offer a cure or lacked the facilities and man power except for
the John Hopkins hospital in Maryland, Baltimore USA where the director of
Paediatrics Dr Ben Carson is the first doctor to handle an issue like this
ever, only then it was on a conjoined twins joined at their heads (the Binder
twins). Please continue...
When GIPLC became involved in Okiki's case and after due
consultations, inquiries and findings as to how much it will cost to have Okiki
treated, they were able to raise within the space of 72 hours the sum of
$234,000 (two hundred and thirty four thousand USD) or N37,000,000 (thirty
seven million naira)and deposited the complete sum to the John Hopkins Medical
which was their required deposit to commence the series of surgery on Okiki.
She will now leave Nigeria in the company of her parents for the USA by April
2013.
Okiki is not the first child GIPLC has sponsored overseas
for Medical attention. They have for a period of six years raised over
N120,000,000 (one hundred and twenty million naira) for children with
debilitating medical condition. (See it here - www.giplc.org)
Okiki's is special because no NGO in the history of Nigeria
has accomplished this feat, to raise the sum of N37,000,000 for a single
individual!
GIPLC World Press Conference comes up at Transcop Hilton in
Abuja on the 26th of March 2013.
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