Foundation targets individuals with disabilities, susceptible teams

The Yeye Afolashade Shona Alauko (YASA) Foundation has pledged to broaden help for individuals with disabilities, susceptible youngsters, ladies and older individuals because it prepares to formally unveil its humanitarian initiatives in Lagos on November 14, 2026.

The Founder, Yeye (Dr.) Afolashade Shona-Aluko, also referred to as Yeye Bobajiroro Oodua, disclosed this on Tuesday at a press convention held in Lagos.

She stated the Foundation was established to advertise dignity, equal alternatives and improved dwelling situations for deprived members of society, significantly these whose entry to healthcare, training, safety and financial alternatives remained restricted.

According to her, the organisation would focus its interventions on 5 key areas: healthcare, rehabilitation and assistive help; inclusive training, abilities improvement and livelihood alternatives; safety and advocacy; incapacity inclusion and social consciousness; in addition to partnerships and institutional sustainability.

Shona-Aluko defined that the Foundation would facilitate entry to healthcare providers, rehabilitation programmes and assistive gadgets whereas offering vocational coaching and abilities acquisition alternatives to assist susceptible people obtain financial independence.

She disclosed that earlier than its formal institution, the organisation had performed a number of humanitarian interventions throughout Lagos state, together with well being outreaches that offered physiotherapy and speech remedy help for kids dwelling with cerebral palsy.

The Foundation, she added, had additionally distributed white canes to individuals with visible impairments to enhance their mobility and independence, alongside coaching and empowerment programmes for individuals with disabilities and different susceptible teams.

She stated the experiences gained from these interventions knowledgeable the choice to determine a structured organisation that might maintain and broaden its humanitarian actions.

The founder careworn that the Foundation was decided to maneuver past guarantees by implementing sensible programmes that might produce measurable enhancements within the lives of beneficiaries.

She, nevertheless, recognized collaboration, accountability and sustained dedication as vital to reaching its targets, calling for partnerships with authorities establishments, company organisations, improvement businesses, conventional establishments, civil society teams and philanthropists.

On the forthcoming launch, she stated the occasion would formally introduce the Foundation, unveil its identification, current its imaginative and prescient and strategic route, and supply a possibility for stakeholders to discover areas of collaboration.

She stated authorities representatives, conventional rulers, improvement companions, philanthropists, advocates for ladies and kids, and incapacity inclusion champions have been anticipated on the occasion.

Shona-Aluko referred to as on governments in any respect ranges, company organisations, worldwide improvement businesses, spiritual establishments and well-meaning Nigerians to help the Foundation by way of programme sponsorship, technical help, capability constructing and strategic partnerships.

She significantly urged company organisations to make incapacity inclusion and social welfare necessary parts of their company social duty programmes.

The founder additionally appealed to the media to amplify the voices and experiences of individuals with disabilities and different susceptible teams, noting that accountable reporting might assist form public notion and promote social inclusion.

She urged journalists to inform tales that promote dignity relatively than pity, empowerment relatively than dependency, and inclusion relatively than discrimination.

According to her, the true measure of a society lies not solely within the achievements of privileged people but additionally in the way it treats its susceptible members.

She stated the Foundation was dedicated to constructing a society the place youngsters with disabilities might pursue their goals, susceptible ladies might entry financial alternatives and older individuals might get pleasure from dignity and care.