ALIYU BELLO, A SYNDIC OF HUMANITARIANISM
When others stand erect with a silver-spoon in their mouth, some crawl to be the ones holding the silver-spoon. Any society bereaved of springboards is a society lost in human growth and development. The life of Alh. Aliyu Bello, the founder of the famous Aliyu Bello Charity Foundation is a pillar that was fixed by grace. He is one of those few individuals that boldly faced the numerous societal challenges to become who he is today. He had laid claim to bravery and confidence in down-playing prejudice and fear of the unknown. Today, he stands tall to be a pillar and a wall that supports the growth of Nasarawa State as a whole.
In the anal of history, the category of men remembered are those who lived for others to be happy. This is glaring as men, who are the custodians of history, mostly record and safeguard that which affects their emotion; positively or negatively. Alh. Aliyu Bello has singled himself as an oasis in the desert of greed and selfishness. He has decided to live for others to survive. The oddity about his lifestyle still hinges on the minimality of the noise attached to his humane gesture. Thus, he betters the lives of others without needing anything in return. Habitually, Aliyu Bello decided to shoulder the full weight of social responsibility on his shoulder by founding the revered Aliyu Bello Charity Foundation (ABCF).
ALIYU BELLO CHARITY FOUNDATION (ABCF)
ABCF is a non-profitable foundation created to ameliorate the plights of vulnerable persons in the society. For someone who decided not to keep the needy at arm-length, Alh. Aliyu Bello single handedly founded this breadwinning organization and funds it to meet the socio-economic needs of certain number of individuals. This hobby has sojourn for years and its effects and impacts preceded and outweighed media publications. Down herein are some of the amplified exercises toping the chart of this charity home:
SALLAH AND CHRISTMAS PACKAGES
ABC Foundation is known for all encompassing assistance that breaks the jinx of tribe, political affiliation, and religion. The workaholic staffers of this humane foundation do work round the clock in sampling groups of widows and vulnerable persons to cloth every Sallah/Christmas periods. This usually comes when the ‘haves’ are counting the sets of clothes they will wear to make the festival a memorable on. ABC Foundation is always there to spread out its hands of fellowship to women who have lost their breadwinners to the cold hands of death, and those ones who cannot afford good meals, talk more of sewing cloths for the once-in-a-year celebration. This gesture comes in form of wrappers and amount of money for sewing. Elders and other individuals whose financial conditions worth assisting, are not left out. They are sampled and provided with brown envelops to ease that feeling of not being financially capable to ride their wishes.
UNANNOUNCED VISITATION TO HOSPITALS AND CLEARING OF HOSPITAL BILLS
It is one of the routines of the CEO of ABC Foundation to take days off work and visits hospitals with the aim of sampling individuals with medical conditions that call for assistance. He magnanimously follow up ward-round with settlement of medical bills to number of persons he can afford. This is one of the gestures that is almost dissipating in our communities today. Hardly do the healthy and rich remember the lots of the sick and poor. Aliyu Bello is an icon to reckon with!
ORPHANAGE HOMES VISITATION
Blessed are those that occupy the vacuum space of fathers to the fatherless. Situations beyond human control have made paternity unavoidably absent in the lives of some persons in our societies. Male parents often meet death due to the lots attached to family up-keep. They are vulnerable to all sorts of dangers as they are the primary sponsor of their family. In keeping up to these demands, the number of orphans in the society has led to the idea of creating a secluded environment where supports can be directed to. It is obvious that there are persons who have surplus but are oblivion of the existence of orphanhood in the society. Alh. Aliyu Bello has included orphans in his foundation. He has made it atop the list of Sallah Activities of the foundation to visit orphanage homes and remind those desirous children that they still have hopes and the society has not forsaken them. ABC Foundation, through its CEO, has done this in different ways to spice up the lives of those children.
EDUCATION ALSO HAS A PLACE IN THE FOUNDATION
Aliyu Bello did not overlook education as a tool for societal reintegration and growth. In his approach, he toasted the dice of education with preference to science and technology. He pays scholarship to persons with interest and requirement to study science related courses in tertiary institution. His call for the extolment of science among humanity is drawn from the glaring shortage of medical doctors and health-workers in our state. This is driven in tandem with the policy and advocacy of the administration of Governor Abdullahi Sule. ABC Foundation is a non-profitable organization that aids in fruitioning the desired goals of both government and individuals in the state. indeed, in ABC we have an institution to promote in all kindness.
SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
This philanthropist of repute also rends support to victims of natural deserter like flood, fire outback, famine and death. He takes it as principle to visit orphanage and children houses. This one of a kind gesture has put smile on many faces in rural areas within and outside Lafia. These did not exclude the packages he always make available for those that come to him through his foundation for marriage and naming ceremonies.
Conclusively, Aliyu Bello is a veteran politician that chooses a path worthy of emulation by all. He desired not to use people, but build people through ABC Foundation. He has picked a path that deserves to be replicated by other individuals who have the means and the ability. Data from ABC Foundation tell you the level at which communism is needed in our communities today. In unisome, we pray that Allah continues to bless the founder of ABC Foundation, increase him in wealth, and uplift the foundation to do more. May we be blessed with the likes of Alh. Aliyu Bello in all the state and Nigeria as a whole.