RCA Honors Charity Half-Marathon Promise To Leprosy Colony

Run Club Abuja (RCA), honors it’s Charity Half-Marathon word on Nigeria’s Independent day word as they provided a lifeline to the isolated Leprosy Colony in Kwali, donating essential medical supplies that will significantly improve the health and well-being of its residents.

The RCA organized a Charity Half-Marathon on July 14, 2024, to raise funds for a community outreach event themed “Hand-off of Medical Supplies to the People of Alheri Village Community.”

Also Read: RCA Charity Half Marathon Gifts Alheri Comm. ₦8.5 million

Buchi Onyegbule, President of RCA, announced that the Charity Marathon would fund humanitarian efforts in Alheri Village from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025. He urged the government to reduce the need for such charity by ensuring that underserved communities were not neglected.

“So the first time we did an anniversary run, we wanted to do a charity behind it. And so we did it and we liked it so much. So we decided, why not do it annually with our anniversary? We decided there and then that our focus would be on human capital development.

There’s no secret that this is an underserved community. Medicine and healthcare is their biggest pain point, and we’re very happy that we’re able to meet them at this very specific point.

And so what we try to do here is that we’ve tried to provide for the duration of one year, that is, from the 1 October 2024 until the 30 September 2025, there will be two healthcare workers that will be domiciled here in this community to attend to all of them.

Nonprofits, charity organizations, individuals can help as much as we like, but cannot replace government. And we’re not going to.”

Meanwhile, nurse in Charge of the clinic, Halimat Yusuf, said the last humanitarian gesture of this kind at the colony was in June 2024. She expressed satisfaction that the medical supplies and additional health personnel would boost community confidence in the health facility, which had previously resorted to self-medication or seeking medical services from distant communities.

“This is one of the basic needs that is supposed to be in the hospital and we have been in need of it. though we’ve been getting helping hands from time to time, but we have not gotten such a helping hand because, they brought drugs and are going to give us volunteers for at least one year. So it’s a very good gesture, it’s very, and very important to us.”

Also, Salisu Mohammed, Youth Leader at the Leprosy Colony, expressed gratitude for the aid but lamented the lack of optimal healthcare despite repeated pleas to the government.

“We appreciate them. We didn’t have medicine before. And we used to even to cry to the government, individuals and other organization. For almost two years now, we don’t have medicine.

As they have brought this medicine now we are happy.|”

A represntative of Norrenberger group a partner to RCA’s humanitarian gesture, Olademeji Adebo noted that the organisation keyed into the project as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

RCA through their Charity Half Marathon on July 14, 2024 raised a sum of ₦8.5 million in other to render essential medical needs for the community.