{"id":7342,"date":"2018-01-19T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2018-01-19T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T21:31:19","slug":"director-of-cleft-facial-deformity-foundation-honoured-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7342","title":{"rendered":"Director of Cleft &#038; Facial Deformity Foundation honoured in Abuja."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Bello Fawaz<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe golden fish has no hiding place. This adage best describes the surprise visit of a delegation of Greenland News Magazine to the Gwarinpa office of Cleft &amp; Facial Deformity Foundation honoured in Abuja.<br \/>\nThe mission was the presentation of a Role Model Award to the founder and director of the organization, Dr Seidu Bello, this Thursday.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have been following the activities of Dr Seidu Bello for about six years\u201c stated Mrs. Peace Ofeoshi, the head of the delegation. &#8220;We believe his touch of lives, leadership qualities and mentoring of younger ones are the criteria that qualified him for the award,&#8221; she added.<br \/>\nAnother member of the team, Jane Agboko, recounted her encounter with Dr Bello\u2019s foundation in Kwali, Abuja in 2013. According to her, she accompanied a neighbor with a son born with cleft lip to the free surgery programme at Kwali General Hospital.<br \/>\n&#8220;The transformation was unbelievable at the end of the surgery, yet no dime was paid ,&#8221; she added.<br \/>\nIn his remarks, Dr Bello expressed a big surprise at what he described as an unexpected award. \u201cThis is a pleasant surprise\u201d he quipped. While thanking the media outfit for the award, he stated that helping humanity is his passion.<br \/>\n\u201cI get a lot of satisfaction and happiness anytime I go out to help,&#8221; he stressed. He believes that the award is to encourage him to do more, adding that people should follow their passion and do the best possible for mankind.<br \/>\nHe dedicated the award to the large population of indigent Nigeria patients afflicted with facial deformity and awaiting assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bello Fawaz. The golden fish has no hiding place. This adage best describes the surprise visit of a delegation of Greenland News Magazine to the Gwarinpa office of Cleft &amp; Facial Deformity Foundation honoured in Abuja. The mission was the presentation of a Role Model Award to the founder and director of the organization, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}