R-L… Champion Newspapers Limited, Daily Editor, Ugo Amadi, Presenting a letter for an award to C.E.O. Noble Merry, Mrs Ogechi Anthony-Iwunze, during the Champion Management Visit to her Company in Lagos…PHOTO: CHINYERE IKEANYI .
CHINWE IFEZULIKE-ODITA
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Noble Merry Ventures, Mrs Ogechi Patience Iwunze-Anthony has emerged as Champion Newspapers 2024 Heart of Gold Award Winner.
The engaging, brilliant and humble lady who hails from Anambra State is being recognized for impacting homes, lives and small businesses positively.
According to her, her organization Noble Merry was born out of a vision to put food on the tables of the poor, indigent and under-served people in society.
The organization is a family oriented Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) registered as a thrift and Cooperative society.
The society empowers families financially and food-wise. Daily, members in their hundreds troop to their office at 74 Ailegun Street, Bucknor, to cart away foodstuffs like Vegetable oil, Rice, Noodles, Beverages, Semolina, Custard, etc.
Members are encouraged to save small sums of money every Saturday for 50 weeks and these monies are utilized to buy foodstuffs in bulk and redistributed to members, who are also given cash incentives to help out in their businesses and daily hustles.
Indeed many members of Noble Merry have testified to paying school fees, house rents with ease after joining Noble Merry.
Champion Newspapers Team made up of The Daily Editor, Mr. Ugo Amadi, The News Editor, Mrs Chinwe Odita and The Group Photo- journalist, Ms. Chinyere Ikeanyi, visited Mrs. Iwunze-Anthony formally presented the letter of Nomination.
Mrs Oge(as she is fondly called by friends and colleagues) expressed her joy “I feel honored and delighted by the nomination for the award. I didn’t realize that I and my team’s modest efforts to impact society positively were being noticed by Champion Newspapers. I give God all the glory”.
Asked how she sustains the organisation, she replied that God and the structure she and her team put in place sustain it and keep it running seamlessly, despite the economic challenges in the country made visible by high cost of food items and services.
Explaining further, she said that every member of the society is re-oriented to understand the vision so that the team can work together towards the targeted goal of putting food on family tables.
She also explained that having the right mindset and “gift of men” have helped her a great deal to sustain the effort required to run such a society.
” I have people that share my vision and they are ever ready to offer what it takes to keep the system afloat. They are my greatest assets” she ended.
Presenting the nomination letter to her, the Champion Daily Editor, Mr. Ugo Amadi said the yearly recognition of candidates is a product of the painstaking selection of Our Board of Editors, and our modest way of recognizing organisations and leaders in both private and public sectors of the economy who have made an impact in industries and peoples lives.
