Consolidated Hallmark Insurance Plc donated various food and other items to the Nigerian Red Cross Society and Motherless Babies Home in Yaba, Lagos in commemoration of this year's Children's Day celebration.
In a statement on Friday, the firm said in recent times, it had pioneered intellectual development of insurance students through its annual essay competition, support to the University of Calabar and provision of free insurance cover for journalists, among others.
The General Manager, Technical, Consolidated Hallmark Insurance, Mr. Bode Opadokun, who led the team during the visit to the Nigerian Red Cross Orphanage, said the company embarked on the project as a way of showing appreciation and giving back to the society from where it was operating.
He said the company had been consistent in the past four years in its support to various government-approved orphanages, including the Lekki Motherless Babies' Home and Heart of Gold Hospice, Surulere.
Opadokun expressed the company's appreciation to the authorities at the home for their efforts in giving hope to the abandoned and motherless children, and assured them of continued support in the future.
According to the statement, the Matron of the home, Mrs. Juliana Obanife, who led the Red Cross team to receive the company executives, thanked them for finding time to visit the home and for the various items donated.
