Lagos based grassroot club Gbagada FC have lent a helping hand to the people of Gbagada with food stuffs as palliative in this period of covid19. This is done as a way to show that they are also responsible for the people of where they base.
Gbagada Football Club is one of the officially recognized football clubs in Lagos. The club develops talented Nigerian footballers into great and promising footballers. This project was mainly targeted for the old but the goodies were much enough to go round. More than 50 boxes of food items and 300 face mask were distributed yesterday at their training facility at the Gbagada Roundabout Pitch.
Gbagada football club head of operations, Boluwatife Akinyelu told fans on the club’s official Facebook page that they are happy to help the citizens in the little best way they can to fight the corona virus pandemic. ‘We are delighted as a football club to be able to reach out in our own way in this period and provide support to some of the people who really are in need at this time.
It is an unfortunate situation all across the world as it is and all we’ve got is each other and we need to try as much as possible to lend an helping hand where you think you can to the next person who might be in need in this difficult times.
For us as a club we have identified the elderly in our community to deliver the food boxes to, so in that way we would have helped in reaching out to a few family.
As part of the new regulations from the government to always put on face masks while in public, we also made available a few club branded mask to distribute.
Let’s keep staying safe and keep up with our basic hygiene and together we will come out of this pandemic stronger.’
The corona virus has infected about five thousand persons in Nigeria causing seventy two deaths. The good news is that more than one thousand persons have recovered from the novel disease.
