Rosemary Olubode, host of Rosemary Olubode Inspirational an Instagram page that focuses on enlightening women about their institutional roles in marriage and to their spouse, has explained the reasons for her addictive benevolence.

Beyond the inspiring platform, Rosemary Olubode Inspirational has been to women about how to build a home established on mutual love and understanding with their spouses, the mother-of-three is a silent philanthropist making a significant impact in the lives of less privileged children and adults.

The Rosemary Olubode Inspirational visioner herself had a difficult childhood. Born in 1975, in the Jibowu area of Lagos State, she survived the most difficult and horrific circumstances to become a quintessential personality today. She grew up with her family in a single room, which they shared with rodents that dug holes through the walls to become co-tenants.

Rosemary Olubode disclosed that her favourite colour is green; a love which stemmed from a green skirt and chiffon top she wore to church on Sundays throughout the six years she spent in secondary school because it was all her parents could afford. The pharmacist, who lost her husband of 18 years in 2020, recalled how her late husband went beyond inconveniencing himself to bear the burden of those in need.

“What motivated me to embark on that journey (philanthropism), was as a child, I could remember on Sundays, a lot of people say I love Green. Until now, it is my favourite colour. How did I start liking green colour? I remember when I was in secondary school, the only Sunday clothes I had were a green skirt and a green chiffon top. And that was the only thing I wore throughout my secondary school days on Sundays to church. I’ve seen the way people drop out of school because there was no funding. In the area where I grew up, you will see people who were never sent to school because their parents had no money to send them to school.

“Then luckily, when I married my husband, my husband like I said, was very kind-hearted. My husband would pay people’s school fees, my husband would pay people’s house rent, my husband would buy food stuff for people, you know, he just clicked, and my husband would tell me people need; the little you can do. At a stage, my husband adopted a child at SOS and was paying the child’s school fees, from when the child was in primary school up to the University. So, all those things inspired me to just give back to the community. I give to people without publicity. People who know that I give, come to me to say ‘This child needs school fees, so I would just say ‘How many?’. They might just say one child and I would say I can do two.

“I pay school fees for children and I don’t even want their parents to know me; that’s what I do, I’ll say please don’t share my contact with their parents, I don’t want a thank you, I just want to do it, and there are children I’ve adopted; I’ve said till they finish secondary school, till they finish primary school, I’ll be the one to pay their fees. There are people I even paid house rent for. This is February, I know the number of people whose house rent I paid in January, I know how many children I’ve paid their school fees; I just do all those things coded. Like I said, I was hiding myself, I don’t want people to know me, I just want to do things quietly,” the visioner of Rosemary Olubode Inspirational stated.

Rosemary Olubode attended Onoyade Community Primary School, after which she proceeded to Jibowu High School, where she became the head girl. Rosemary Olubode graduated with the best result in 1993, in the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in the school. She afterwards obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy, from the University of Benin. After the one-year Internship programme, the brain behind the Rosemary Olubode Inspirational was posted to Eket in Akwa Ibom State, for the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The second of four siblings worked with Dana Drugs Limited for seven years before her foray into personal venture.