A non-governmental organisation, Steno Memorial foundation has provided free medical services, secondary school educational support and social welfare support to Nigerian residents of Ogun and other states, with over 500,000 lives impacted. A non-governmental organisation, Steno Memorial foundation has provided free medical services, secondary school educational support and social welfare support to Nigerian residents of Ogun and other states, with over 500,000 lives impacted.
Dr Olufemi Sanni, while speaking on the rationale behind the gesture, said the SMF foundation was founded to assist the society’s less privileged; most of whom are women, indigent students, out-of-school youths and the society’s aged. He said that the foundation, since its establishment in 2011, has provided a range of medical services including free surgical evaluations and surgeries, eye screening and cataracts surgeries, community-level medical screenings and consumables, and psychosocial support by bursaries, scholarships, and social support funds for the aged and widows. The Founder when speaking on its educational impact; revealed that it has provided full tertiary scholarships till university completion over 12 indigent students, impacting their families, and lifting them out of the burden that sending their ward to the university would have cost them. He promised that the foundation shall keep striving to impact lives through its commitments to education, health and society according to the foundation’s mission. Source: Vanguard
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