As Finance Minister, Adeosun Prioritised Intervention Programmes For Poor Nigerians- Osinbajo

Former Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has bounced back to public glare, but this time she is involved in charity, giving help to the indigent through a Dash Me Store (DMS) for meeting their needs.

The store is established to mobilise resources for onward distribution to vulnerable people in the society via grassroot charities.

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DMS is an outlet of the Dash Me Foundation (DMF) of Mrs. Adeosun, which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo inaugurated on Sunday

At the event, Osinbajo said one factor responsible for the impactful implementation of the Social Investment Programmes (SIP) of the Buhari administration over the years is the realization that you can’t reach Nigerians if you don’t have a plan for the grassroots

This realisation then influenced the structure designed for the SIP and is largely responsible for the successes of the programme (which is now regarded as one of the biggest social welfare schemes in the continent).

According to the Vice President, “I am excited to be here for several reasons, but most of all because of Mrs Adeosun’s commitment to the notion that all service to man is actually service to God, and she took that very seriously.”

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He noted that “this is why, as Minister, she prioritised the Social Investment Programmes, when for the first time, the country voted almost N500bn of our annual budget to welfare programmes which are called the Social Investment Programmes, which involved engaging 500,000 young men and women, and also giving microcredit to about 2 million traders and also a home-grown school feeding programme for 9.5 million children daily in public schools across the country.

“I am therefore really not surprised that she has decided to use some of her enormous talent and influence to establish an organisation that raises funds and provides resources for indigenous grassroot charities working with orphaned and vulnerable children, disadvantaged youth, and victims of domestic violence.”

Earlier in her remarks, Adesoun said the idea of the store is to aggregate donations of different kinds for charitable causes, noting that Nigerians from different fields of endeavour and from across the country would be enabled via the online store to contribute to supporting the needy in the society.

She said the organization would work closely with charitable organisations in the grassroots to ensure that funds and other materials donated via the Dash Me Store get to actual beneficiaries.

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