Siju Iluyomade @ 58: ARISE WOMEN Convener Recommits Self To Lifting The Less Privilege, Supporting Humanity

Well-aclaimed. Such have been her efforts towards empowering the less-privileged and supporting the efforts of government to provide for people's needs. She has been picked out to be one of the most outstanding among the lots who follow same passion in this part of the world.. Regardless of religion, tribe, and ethnicity, Dr Siju Iluyomade has continued to give her all to bettering the lives of many, using her Arise Women Foundation to intervene in many areas of human needs.

This trait of hers, many agreed, resonated with the birth of the Non-Government Organisation (NGO). Not only that, Siju, as she’s fondly called, is known to have nurtured charitable hopes and determination to help women efficiently thrive in life. She institutionalised the Handmaidens Women in Leadership Series (HWILS) to build intentional leaders.

While speaking recently during one of her programmes, Dr Siju who will tomorrow, January 8 2022 be celebrating her 58th birthday by giving out to the less privileged in  parts of the country says “ my dream is to make sure Arise affects every parts of human life globally in terms of health, housing, education, empowerment, farming and many more”. 

This beautiful woman of substance disclosed again that ”in the last 14 years, we have achieved so much by putting structures like Hospitals, School buildings, Computerised library, boreholes are some of the many infrastructures we have built in many communities like Dafara, Kabusa in Abuja, Ondo, Imo, Kebbi and Lagos States just to mention but few”.

The Arise Covid-19 Clinic, through her initiative, has also been activated where COVID-19 (including booster) vaccines have been given to people through support from the Lagos State government.

A lawyer of many decades. Through her humanitarian works, she has also branded a food basket called ‘ARISE PINK BUCKET’. The content includes food items like rice, semo, tomato paste, groundnut being distributed to every local government in Lagos State, starting with Amuwo-Odofin LG.    

Despite Siju being the ever-supportive wife to Pastor Idowu Iluyomade of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David, Lagos and Arise Women being a faith-based NGO, she has not discriminatory in giving succour to the less privileged in the country regardless of their ethnic, tribal or religious affinities.