Former Large Brother Naija housemate Religion Adewale has formally teamed up with the Lagos Meals {Bank} Initiative (LFBI) for a focused feeding outreach within the metropolis.
The collaboration is a part of LFBI’s Momentary Emergency Meals Help Programme (TEFAP), designed to rapidly transfer meals to households affected by the rising price of dwelling.
LFBI confirmed Religion might be current on the warehouse-led distribution, serving to to kind and hand out packages salvaged by means of the charity’s agricovery efforts.
Organisers say the involvement of a public determine like Religion is aimed toward rising visibility for the marketing campaign and inspiring broader group assist.
The occasion is being billed not as a one-off photograph alternative however as a coordinated exercise inside LFBI’s ongoing food-rescue and redistribution work, with concrete targets for the day’s deliveries to specified susceptible {groups}.
Programme mechanics: agricovery, companions and beneficiaries
On the coronary heart of the operation is LFBI’s #AgricoveryProgram, which recovers surplus recent produce from farms and markets, grades it on the warehouse and redistributes it to households, aged residents and folks with disabilities.
The charity says this reduces meals waste whereas assembly pressing dietary wants in casual settlements.
For the present outreach, LFBI is working with 5 companion NGOs, JKO Coronary heart Basis, McDera Meals {Bank}, The Glow Basis, Religion Strikes Basis and I Care For All Basis, to achieve extra communities and guarantee last-mile supply.
Every companion has an outlined catchment space and beneficiary listing to keep away from duplication and guarantee accountability.
LFBI spokespeople emphasised monitoring and record-keeping: recipients are registered, meals objects logged, and follow-up checks deliberate so the intervention might be evaluated and scaled the place it proves best.
Religion’s function: from volunteer to strategic collaborator
Religion’s participation goes past turning up for the distribution. LFBI says he has pledged to work with its community on a minimum of yet another feeding drive and can lend his platform to consciousness and fundraising efforts coordinated by Religion Strikes Basis.
The previous contestant has beforehand volunteered with LFBI’s #NUMEPlan, which focuses on treating and feeding malnourished kids. He instructed organisers the hands-on work satisfied him to deepen the connection and assist ongoing interventions.
Beneficiaries and subject volunteers famous that celeb involvement accelerated logistics on the day, extra volunteers, smoother crowd administration and faster distribution.
But, LFBI confused that operational success rested on pre-existing techniques and the companion NGOs on the bottom.