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We Visited Our Aunt,Dada: Ezinne Mrs Celestina Ihekwoaba

Meeting with CEOAfrica Jan 3rd 2025

HOPE’s January 3rd 2025 Groundbreaking Ceremony

Land Dedication & Ribbon Cutting

The Arrival of The King of Owerre Nkworji & his Queen.

Induction of the Officers of the Executive and the Members of the Board of Trustees

The swearing in and inductions that included Agbara Ndu Nze

The Serving of Cola Nuts and Reception of our Guests

The Ndu Nze attended and gave their full support as now our patrons and sponsors

The Ndu Nze are the Traditional Rulers - sitting on the right

Explaining HOPE Foundation's Mission

Owerre Nkworji women “gbaa na ulu” to show their support!

Explaining our Mission and The Promise of HOPE by Prof. Engr. Egondu Onyejekwe and Nze Emmanuel OnyeOmereNaNdu Ezirim

PROFESSOR ENGR. EGONDU ONYEJEKWE 's Speech to Owerre Nkworji Women at the Groundbreaking Ceremony

My dear Owerre Nkworji Sisters,
I will not give you a long speech today. The most important thing I will share with you all is that there is plenty to celebrate today. We shall all eat to our satisfaction, and we will all be filled even beyond the needs of this day!

The intent of inviting you here today is to thank you for the job which you have done so well. This includes those who showed up for screening, those who were screened, and those who conducted the actual screening and tabulated the data. It also includes those who were diagnosed sick, and who, therefore, received medications, shots, and so forth. The idea of feeling and getting well is no small fit.

Let me explain our project in layman’s terms. I intend to make you all relevant. In my sister’s Introduction of me, she informed you that when I first arrived in the United States I came home and declared that everyone needs to experience the U.S. So, each one of you is eligible to experience the United States – either, physically, spiritually or through the database/s we have created to use. When we share these data, we will be requesting funds from the grantors to help us attend to all your health needs. We are talking about attracting US dollars, not simply Naira. {People started applauding}

So, consider The Garden of HOPE as A Promise. Not of me or man, but God’s promise that you would be hopeful and hunger no more. As of today, you will be fed twice, once during this ceremony, and later during Nze Emma’s ceremony. {More Applause by the people}.

That’s all the message I have for you today! Thank you all for coming!

Hope Foundation Event: January 3, 2025

Pharm. Emmanuel Ezirim’s (Nze OnyeOmereNaNdu) presentation in summary

My brethren, I share this story with you in our native language of Igbo so that you my people may listen and gain full understanding. Wherever there’s a need for translation or use of English, I shall do so as needed.

The inspiration for the work I do stems from a tragic event in my childhood. I do not intend for all of it to be understood in this one speech on this day but over time you will gain more understanding. My practice of this thing that has become known and popularized today as Medical Mission began in 1999. The idea to initiate such a practice in the first place was inspired by the untimely death of my little brother Peter in 1970. He was only 6 months old.

NZE Emma showcased some of the drugs we brought home

It was right at the end of the Biafran War. My family would be considered one of the lucky ones since none of us suffered the normal illness of malnutrition called Kwashiorkor. However, we could not escape the disease called ignorance. See, it was the disease of ignorance that killed my little brother.

Peter simply had a cold and was running a temperature. There was no Ibuprofen or acetaminophen or the like available to give him. Ayaya, the traveling nurse was nowhere to be found that day. Peter’s uncontrolled fever set him into the “shivers” which the village woman called “mbah agbara”. That meant in their understanding that the spirits now possessed the child. They took him from my mother, and he was buried while still breathing.

We are still battling the same level of ignorance today in this part of the world when it comes to health issues. This is what motivates me for the work I do. With the support of Ndi Nze Owerre Nkworji, the Garden of HOPE Foundation is creating a rural healthcare giver support system based on the like our Ayaya. The Western world has seen the value in training healthcare givers who can provide some minimal preventative measures that will prevent unnecessary and untimely deaths such as Peter’s. They have borrowed an idea that was ours. This time we are joining in refining the system so that when it is shared with the rest of the world, it will be recognized as having its roots in Owerre Nkworji. Let us be the ones who will chart this path for the rest of the world.