This year’s Children’s Day celebration would not be forgotten in a hurry after wife of the Vice-President, Dolapo Osinbajo sang and read a story to Nigerian children in a surprise session hosted by charity foundation,The Destiny Trust. In the encounter, she had told the children to dream big because they held limitless possibilities.
Mrs. Osinbajo read chapters from the book, Dalu’s Diary by Ogechi Ezeji. After pointing out the moral lessons on honesty and diligence, she took them on an adventure through a virtual tour of Nigeria’s beautiful scenery thereby celebrating her culture and people. The story reading was followed by personal interaction with the children she called by their names. The children asked her questions from her childhood experiences, becoming a successful woman to life as the wife of the Vice-President of Nigeria. According to her, supporting Nigeria’s number two citizen comes with great responsibility. They sang Timi Dakolo’s Great Nation and the National Anthem.
The children in slum communities were not left out of the Foundation’s plans to make Children’s Day unique in spite of the lockdown. A special Children’s Day lunch was served to children at Aboki Estate and Marwa in the Lekki neighbourhood. These are two of the slums where the Foundation set up food points during the lockdown and served about 28,100 daily meals to children as reported by The COVID Observatory’s Lagos State Food Distribution Tracker.