Children at the City of Refuge Orphanage, Abuja,were full of smiles and joy after they were splashed with assorted food items and clothing from Diamond Modelling Agency (DMA Nigeria) during its visit to the home.

The Manger, DMA Nigeria, Prince Thomas, explained why they came to deliver the items to the children and the management of the orphanage said the children in orphanages deserve love and care from citizens like them.

Thomas further stated that children in the orphanages are unique and intelligent who have the potentials to move the nation forward, should be treated well as other children, and should be adequately protected by all.

He said: “We are here to be part of City of Refuge Orphanage, where the children are well taken care of, but we want to support them with this token as part of our social responsibility in reaching and touching lives, particularly these children who some people describe as less privileged and unfortunate.

“We love to see them grow and will continue to support them.

"It is everybody’s duty to take care of them with whatever little thing you have and not until you have all things before you come here to give.

"We see them as future leaders and we also want to be part of their history when they grow up to tell the story.

“We have come to give them cloths and these food items as part of our support despite their parents are not by them and also for them to have a sense of belonging", Mr. Thomas said.

The Manager disclosed that the Agency will continue to visit orphanages in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to donate food items and clothing to them.

According to the manager, the organisation was established to redefine and sanitise the modelling industry, which has some vices that have dented the image of the industry over the years through character moulding approach.

“DMA Nigeria is a modelling company that grooms,trains models to a professional standard. Looking at how the industry is there you see corruption and immorality going on in the industry is not really encouraging.

"We are looking at a way to eradicate it through our TV programme that is coming up soon, which is called ‘Next Model To Stardom’ reality TV show.

“We want to change the mentality of some models and give them positive orientation about the industry that models are not prostitutes but are public figures that will impact in the society at large.

“We also want to enlighten parents and guardians about models, which they don’t encourage their daughters to take up the career,and as a result these models go into the industry without the consent their parents or guardians because of their feelings and fears for the industry.

“With this our TV reality project and programme I believe that some parents would be convinced modelling should be taken as a profession in Nigeria and on how to make it blend with other profession.

“We are working on a platform where models will have monthly seminars on different aspects of life, personal development, we introduce courses like advance personal development, we tell them about the modelling ethics and if properly studied is far different from what is happening in the industry, where people go into prostitution, human trafficking, and we discourage such vices in our company, and encourage them acquire education”, he said.

Source: http://thestreetreporters.com/modelling-agency-splashes-food-items-clothing-on-orphanage/