Bolanle Ambode’s passion God’s for heritage

First Lady, Lagos State, Mrs Bolanle Ambode

According to former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr Kofi Annan, “millions of children continue to endure the dreadful indignities of poverty; hundreds of thousands suffer the effects of conflict and economic chaos; tens of thousands are maimed in wars; many more are orphaned or killed by HIV/AIDS.”

In an increasingly turbulent world, children can surely make do with a little love, care and attention. This much was attested to by the 19th-century English writer and critic John Ruskin when he wrote: “Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”

According to Ashley Montagu, a notable British-born anthropologist, “the child who has not been loved is biochemically, physiologically, and psychologically very different from the one who is loved. The former even grows differently from the latter.”