Moses Nosike

As part of its corporate social responsibility initiative and its commitment to community empowerment especially the physically challenged and the less privileged, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Nigeria’s No.1 Noodle brand, Indomie instant noodles has empowered some physically challenged persons, providing them with Indomie Mobile Carts otherwise known as’ Indomie Buka’ to start up small businesses.

The empowered persons are people who have lost their limbs to accidents and have been provided with artificial limbs by Ishk foundation owned by the Tolaram group which comprises of Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Lucky Fibres Plc, and Panabiz International amongst others.

Speaking during the presentation held at Indomie’s corporate head office in Surulere recently, the Brand Manager for Indomie, Mr. Girish Sharma said that the company decided to carry out this gesture as part of its contribution to the society and as well a way of poverty alleviation and empowerment for the beneficiaries.

He said, the empowerment is to “assist these group of people to have meaningful source of income and means of livelihood since they can’t be able to feed and take care of their family responsibilities, having lost their limbs to accidents.

But we discovered that some of them are willing to work to assist their families instead of going around the streets, asking for arms”, he said.

Mr. Sharma at the event, call on meaningful Nigerians and corporate organizations to emulate Indomie’s kind gesture by helping the less privileged especially the physically disadvantaged.

The beneficiaries, Mr. Kingsley Njoku and Mr. Agi Gabriel Ogah both thanked the Ishk foundation for giving them the artificial limbs which has no made their hitherto difficult mobility easy and the management of Dufil Prima Foods for giving them what they described as ‘a new lease of life’ by setting them up in small business.