Our Mission At Evarichane Hope Foundation Is To Take Youths Out Of The Streets – Ekhorutomwen
Richard Segun Ekhorutomwen, the founder of the Evarichane Hope Foundation, a community youth based non-governmental organization has emphasized the main purpose of establishing the body which is basically to render help and tackle challenges such as poverty, taking he youths out of the street, fill education gaps, and provide healthcare services where needed at the community level.
“Empowering lives through sustainable solutions and uniting individuals, partners, and communities to tackle pressing challenges, which is paramount importance to us.
Our aim is to provide hope through effective, compassionate action. I am a Rotarian and as a member of a Rotary, a global network of over 1.2 million neighbours, friends, and community leaders who volunteer their skills and resources to solve local and international humanitarian issues, we focus on “Service Above Self,” promoting high ethical standards, peace, and fellowship through community action which I have brought to the community group to better the society.” Ekhorutomwen explained.
The NGO collaborated with De Olympia Open Air Gym based in Mokuolu Street, Anthony Village on Saturday 21st February to have Test of Strength and Fitness which was well attended by athletes in the neigbourhood with diverse sports events that featured a mix of explosive power tests, maximal strength lifts, and endurance challenges, categorized into Strongman, Powerlifting, functional fitness, and field athletic competitions.
“We are 60% sports promoting organization; since majority of the youths in our communities are into sports and honestly, we indeed contribute a quota by giving the first position which is N250,000, second N150,000 and third position N100,000 which really impacted the winners.
“We also compensate other winners from the fourth to thirteenth position, making them ten in all with N10,000 each which made their day. The best female participants got N30,000 and N20,000 respectively” he narrated.
“Fitness is part of life so we should all be fit. As old as I am, I take time to keep fit. Do you know how many people that slump and die on Dily basis? Because they are not fit. We want to encourage people to make fitness part of their daily routine. The turnout was encouraging.”
‘’We are a passionate team dedicated to creating positive change in underprivileged communities and that made us to train over 40 children during the long holiday last year tagged Music Summer Training for free on diverse musical instruments. Two of them showed sincere interest and continued in that line till date.’’
Physical challenged youths are our next target now. Supporting physically challenged individuals involves fostering independence through accessible infrastructure (ramps, wide doors), providing assistive devices (wheelchairs, prosthetics), and offering vocational training. Socially, it requires treating individuals with dignity. God helping us. We will do something for them soon.
