by By Elijah Ugani
A Nongovernmental Organization, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Foundation, Makurdi in Benue State has honored the Chief of Staff to the Cross River State Governor, Hon. Martin Orim, for his selfless humanitarian services to the less privileged.
The award was presented on Saturday, 13th February 2021, at the Foundation office in Benue state.
Presenting the award on behalf of the foundation, Rev. Bartholomew Maria Akighir noted that “we appreciate you for honouring our invitation for this award in recognition of the Chairman/CEO of GFO Orim Foundation.
“Our awards are presented to individuals with notable foot prints and, Sir Martins Orim made it into the list because of the following reasons and many more which we have being following on social media handles and internet for quite sometimes:
“His swift intervention in October 2020 to save Mrs Theresa who had premature birth of triplets. The emotional comments he expressed when he visited her in the hospital, showed his compassion and genuine love for the poor and the needy.
“His passion and determination for the girl-child education also got our attention.
“His Foundation has being making huge donations to the physically challenged persons and so many other poor and needy people in Cross River and beyond.
“These good works and many more done by his Foundation have caught our attention; and will hope that the award given to him will encourage him to do more.
“As a reputable Christian charitable organization, we hold merit in high esteemed and we always do our best to encourage those trading on the path of charity which is a gate way to eternity”.
Responding on behalf of the Chairman and Founder of GFO Orim Foundation who doubles as the Chief of Staff to Governor Ben Ayade, the Programme Director of GFO Orim Foundation, Hon. Peter Okaba thanked Our Lady of Perpetual Help Foundation for painstakingly following the activities of GFO Orim Foundation to have considered Hon. Martin Orim worthy of the honor.
He noted that “for us at GFO Orim Foundation, we are not interested in whether people are seeing what we are doing or not. Our mandate and interest is to ensure that we provide succor to the most vulnerable people in the society within our reach in line with our resources.
“We were shocked when we got this invitation for this award, because we least expected it. For every good intent we have, God knows.
“This award is a motivation to do more and it has just revealed to us that people are taking note of what we are doing, and they are very interested in all our programmes.
“Our Chairman and Founder, the Chief of staff to the Governor of Cross River State is poised to give to those in need, and he will continue to support those he can within the context of his resources”
