World Charity Day: Stakeholders Seek Enabling Law

Centre for Development Support Initiative (CEDSI), a Niger Delta-based non-governmental organization, has called for legislation that will compel multination companies to set aside some percentage of their income for the less privileged in the society.
The international director of the centre, Mrs Mina Ogbanga, who said this at a press briefing in Port Harcourt in commemoration of the international day of charity. He said that the level of [poverty in the land has made it compelling for government to back up the issue of charity with legislation.
Ogbanga, who spoke through the Finance and Administrative Adviser of the centre, Mr Kuva Porokie, said that the concept of common humanity must be explored by privileged persons across the globe to identify with their less privileged counterparts.
She said that CEDSI had over the years identified with the less privileged in the society.
‘Centre for Development Support Initiative (CEDSI),who operational since 2000 has been involved solely in the business of charity and giving.
“Infact, giving has been a great part of our activity.. Just last week in commemoration of this day, free books were distributed to children in a Lagos-based charity home. This is key in promoting the essence of giving even as this year’s theme expounds”, she said.
Ogbanga regretted that in today’s society, government and people want to benefit without giving, and stressed the need for stakeholders to partner with the organization in the realization of this important act of humanitarian gesture.
In her words: giving and receiving complement each other, and obviously, like we know that one cannot actually give what he does not have.
“Giving is an integral part of our existence as humans”, she added.
She  said that CEDSI has implemented programmes which have benefitted more than five hundred communities across the Niger Delta, while homes such as Remand home, home for the elderly and Port Harcourt Children Home have benefitted from the  activities of the group.