Details As Man With A Large Heart David Imonitie Lights Up Makoko With I Believe Foundation

Eniola Adeniyi

As bad as life appears to be for them, the people of Makoko have now have a reason to believe in a better future.

Makoko is a slum settlement in Lagos state where inhabitants live in squalor with no access to electricity and drinkable water.

They live on makeshift houses made of wood and planks built on dark smelly water by the seaside.

David Imonitie jr, the success trainer, investor, and serial entrepreneur has taken up their cause.

Imonite is doing this with ‘’I Believe Foundation’’, which he founded in 2013 in the United States of America and has touched lives in the land of opportunities.

The foundation’s objective is to assist young, underprivileged and orphaned children as well as to deserving families in need.

.I Believe Foundation has taken up the cause of the people of Makoko because it is a community made up of deserving families.

The foundation is taking up the cause of the people on two fronts, advocacy and provision of relief materials, seen as immediate needs.

The advocacy would see Imonite and his team take up the government – in a non-confrontational manner – and seek how best to work together on a long term plan of making life better for the people of Makoko.

Imonitie and his team including top players Reverend Mo Merriman-Johnson and Morounranti Ashabi, the culture ambassador appointed by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi acted on the immediate needs of the people of Makoko in the afternoon of Monday, December 2, 2019.

The first batch of 500 units of water purifier and solar light provision LightWaterLife sustainable life kit donation was given out in Makoko in the presence of the traditional head of the community and other leaders.

A demonstration of the use of the kit was done for those present.

Each kit contains devices that provide clean drinkable water and a solar panel that powers two energy-saving bulbs and a football for the kids.

The donation was made at the only – floating – primary school inside Makoko.

Reverend Mo Merriman – Johnson insists that I Believe Foundation is in Makoko for the long haul.

She asserted at a media parley held before the visit to Makoko that ‘’this is a foundation with a very large heart and that is what separates us’’.

Merriman- Johnson who is Imonitie Jr’s mother declared to the media ‘’for as long as I am alive, I will continue to do this’’.

Merriman-Johnson also spoke about funding explaining all the good works that ‘’I Believe Foundation’’ has done have been solely funded by Mr. Imonite Jr.

Imonitie Jr is one of the listed high earners in the network marketing business.

Merriman- Johnson expressed the hope that other well-meaning Nigerians will join hands with the I Believe Foundation to make the much-needed difference.

MorounRant Ashabi, the ambassador for Culture who is involved with the foundation as the Chief Operating Officer explains the I Believe Foundation’s activities are certainly larger than the intervention at Makoko.

Ashabi explained that another major goal of the foundation in Africa is to aid and equip less privileged children with the necessary tools to support and provide for themselves in the ever dynamic world.

This, Ashabi said,  would be done through empowerment programs such as skills acquisition in bead making, fabric designing, hair styling, nail art, software programming, data processing, skincare, carpentry, wood carving, sculpturing, makeup artistry, and other engagements.

The Culture Ambassador explained that the foundation already is putting the structure in place to achieve this, including a building for the skill acquisition training in Lagos and scouts for beneficiaries.

‘’We intend to take the skill acquisition training across the whole country, but we want to start with Lagos’’ Ashabi stated.