Who Is The Founder Of A Hospice In My Community
As a student of a Jesuit High School, I am very conversant with the motto, "Educating men and women for others." As a matter of fact, my high school's vision says, "Forming women and men for the service of God and others in Jesuit Tradition." From both perspectives, the bottom line is that Jesuit education primarily aims at forming men and women for others. But who are these men and women for others? Men and women for others are those people who use the resources at their disposal and their God given talents to promote welfare for others, that is, the people in our community. In our world today, there is ample social injustice and marginalization . Because of these problems in our global community, men and women for others are needed, and will
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Laja Adedoyin, the founder of a hospice in my community. Mrs. Adedoyin spent twenty-five years of her life in the UK operating facilities that took care of people with disabilities. She then came back to Lagos in 2003 and established the first hospice in my country—Heart of Gold Ch ildren's Hospice. All the children living at the hospice bear the surname "Adedoyin", as she regards all of them as her children. She knows every child at the hospice by name, all 45 of them. She gives the names to the children as most of them are abandoned as infants, and found on the roadside. She gives hope to these children that were rejected because of the disabilities they were born with.
Mrs. Adedoyin gains nothing from the hospice she established, and she comes everyday to the hospice to make sure everything is in order. She is one person I know that works for justice in my community, regardless of what she has to gain. She once said, "I look forward to the day I’ll take my last breath, when I will join the children who have gone before me and I would like to look back on my life and see my children who will always be part of my history, knowing that I did all I could to positively impact their lives and to be able to say goodbye with a smile before I take my last breath." She knows the true meaning of service and her lifestyle is an inspiration to
Laja Adedoyin, the founder of a hospice in my community. Mrs. Adedoyin spent twenty-five years of her life in the UK operating facilities that took care of people with disabilities. She then came back to Lagos in 2003 and established the first hospice in my country—Heart of Gold Ch ildren's Hospice. All the children living at the hospice bear the surname "Adedoyin", as she regards all of them as her children. She knows every child at the hospice by name, all 45 of them. She gives the names to the children as most of them are abandoned as infants, and found on the roadside. She gives hope to these children that were rejected because of the disabilities they were born with.
Mrs. Adedoyin gains nothing from the hospice she established, and she comes everyday to the hospice to make sure everything is in order. She is one person I know that works for justice in my community, regardless of what she has to gain. She once said, "I look forward to the day I’ll take my last breath, when I will join the children who have gone before me and I would like to look back on my life and see my children who will always be part of my history, knowing that I did all I could to positively impact their lives and to be able to say goodbye with a smile before I take my last breath." She knows the true meaning of service and her lifestyle is an inspiration to