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The Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial (DOAM) foundation’s annual charity golf tournament is in its tenth year.

Preparations have also gotten rounded off for this year’s event whose qualifier will hold on February 1 at the Golf Section of Ikoyi Club 1938.

According to the organizers, this edition would showcase all the health and education projects that the foundation has executed with proceeds of the tournaments from inception in 2011.

Pat Bassey, the coordinator of the organizing committee, said over 80,000 lives have been touched with a significant part of the funding for the various life-changing projects coming from the annual event.

“It has been a memorable journey for all of us involved in this project. For a decade, we have volunteered to support this project which gives hope to the hopeless and makes the weak strong,” Bassey said on Wednesday.

“The foundation has supported the less privileged people and communities facing challenges, particularly in health and education. It has awarded scholarships, built e-libraries, sickbays, organized free medical outreach programs and, more importantly, educated and mentored Nigerian children and youths.”

He also commended the interventions by corporate organizations and kind-hearted individuals.

“The Golf Section of Ikoyi Club 1938 and the Ikoyi golf community have also been very supportive, having adopted the foundation as a key ally in deploying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities,” the coordinator said.

Ebi Pinnick, a member of the organizing committee, also said: “The 2020 tournament aims to consolidate the patrons’ trust in the foundation as we remain optimistic that there would be more interventions that would help us surpass the efforts of the past nine years.”

The Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial Foundation is a charitable, humanitarian and non-governmental organization established in 2007 in memory of Daniel OgechiAkujobi (1992-2005) who died from injuries he sustained in a highway accident on his way back to school along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ogun state. He was the only son of his parents.