As part of their desire to  save the life of Motunlayo Adefunke Sofowote, a part time photographer and founder/president, Glowing Channels’ Foundation, a non-profit organisation, who is critically ill and in dire need of help to overcome cervical cancer, a group of friends known as ‘Mrs. Adefunke Sofowote Cancer Fighting Fund Team’ is organizing a photo exhibition to raise funds for her treatment.

The exhibition, which is taking place under the theme, ‘She Lives On’, would open on May 4, 2014, at Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos, at 4 pm prompt and would run for one week. The exhibition would be declared open by Dame Abimbola Fashola, the First Lady of Lagos State.

Mrs Sofowote has lived a better part of the last 15 years helping the needy and the less-privileged in society. But today, the 67-year old woman is critically ill and in dire need of help to overcome cervical cancer.

“The exhibition is a creative way of raising the necessary funds for her treatment,” Charles Ayo Dada noted. Dada is the coordinator of the exhibition. “The idea is to give back something to the patrons,” he added. In his view, those who would support the cause of this exhibition would come in different categories. In his words:

“Those pictures have their own appeal, so there are those who would buy because they love art. But there are those who may be moved to give more than the cost of those pictures, if they see it as a fundraising activity.

There would also be those who would buy because of the theme of the activity, particularly because they know the woman at the centre of it all and they want to identify with the project.”

As a dedicated part-time photographer with longstanding experience, Sofowote has quite a unique collection of photographs, out of which 40 have been selected for the exhibition. “We have had to go through a collection of photographs she had taken over the years, to select the ones we would put on display,” Dada noted.

According to her husband, Segun Sofowote, the renowned dramatist, writer and veteran broadcaster, “Every session of treatment she undergoes costs the equivalent of well over a million naira. We need now N25 million to pay for her hospital bills, another N5 million to pay for her medications and prescriptions and another N5 million to take care of her living expenses in Germany.”