Aba bakery commences feeding of 300 residents daily

April 30, 2020

By Ijendu Iheaka

La’Fresh Foods and Bakery, Aba on Thursday began daily feeding of 300 needy persons who could walk to its office building on 173 Faulks road, Aba, Abia.

Mr Michael Ani, Proprietor of the company disclosed this in an interview with our Correspondent in Aba on Thursday adding that the project would last for a week.

Ani said the company which began operations in June 2019 decided to feed 300 needy persons daily around the company to enable them cope with coronavirus lockdown hardships.

He said that he was not using the process of feeding the needy around as a marketing strategy but was doing so because the people needed help at this time.

“In Aba where many eateries had shut down, the company was well received when we started and God had shown his faithfulness in our operations.

“And considering our market capture, we decided to assist some persons around to feed for some days and to ease the hardship that coronavirus lockdown had caused them.

“Their acceptance of us and what we see some of them go through now moved us to act and now that things are not very smooth for the people, we were touched to reach out to them and lend a helping hand.

“We serve them food with sachet water and we are focusing mainly on women and children.

“We are motivated by Jesus Christ’s concern that after three days of staying with followers, Christ asked his disciples to feed them.

“If Christ could ask that his disciples feed the multitude because they had not eaten for three days, we need to be concerned about our people who have now entered the fourth week of lockdown with its hardships”, he said.

Ani said he engaged the services of men of the Nigerian Legion to ensure the people maintained social distancing while collecting the food but noted that the people proved difficult to manage.

Mrs Ngozi Ndubuisi, and Goodluck Okafor, beneficiaries of the food service who spoke to our Correspondent said they were grateful that the company remembered to feed them at this time.

They called for government to extend their palliatives to them to augment what the owner of La’Fresh Foods was giving them.