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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has commended former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, over her efforts to reach out to orphans, vulnerable children and less privileged people. Osinbajo gave the commendation on Sunday, June 13, 2021 in Lagos at the inauguration of DashMe Store, an online component of the Dashme Foundation.
DashMe Foundation, which is Adeosun’s initiative, aims to change the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children, youths and victims of domestic violence in West Africa by funding indigenous organisations that work with them. The Store is also an online thrift to raise money for orphanages and other needy people; it is about celebrating the art of giving.
The vice president said that Adeosun had the capacity for new ideas and innovation and praised her tenacity in seeing them through.
“But most of all her commitment to the notion that all service to man is actually service to God; that we owe the people, especially the poor and underprivileged not just empathy but concrete and creative provision to enable them live their best lives.
“This is why as a minister, she prioritised the social investment programme when for the first time we voted almost N500 billion of our annual budget to welfare programmes for the poor.
“I am therefore really not surprised that she has decided to use some of her enormous talent and influence to establish an organisation that raises funds and resources for indigenous grassroots charities working with orphaned and vulnerable children, disadvantaged youths and victims of domestic violence.
“The DashMe Foundation is in every sense, who Kemi Adeosun really is.’’
He said that Adeosun and her team brought the new notion of social enterprise to the project.
According to him, philanthropy runs with the discipline, attention to detail and financial prudence of a successful business.
Osinbajo said that an important component of the DashMe Foundation was the DashMe Store.
“This is just one of the creative ways through which the foundation will mobilises funds for charity.
“ The idea of this thrift-for-charity store is brilliant and the first of its kind in Nigeria.
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