From left is Mr. Chidiebube Okeoma, the founder and President of Stand for Humanity Foundation while Miss. Rachael Nwokeocha, the beneficiary in the middle.
From Everest Ezihe, Owerri
A human rights organization, Stand For Humanity Foundation has facilitated the provision of a prosthetic limb for 17- year old Racheal Onyinyechi Nwokeocha from Umunnachi community in the Obowo Local Government Area of Imo State.
Recall that the orphan’s right limb was amputated on June 10, 2025, after medical investigations proved that the limb which got seriously damaged in a fatal car accident last December 2024, was not salvageable.
The foundation which had rescued the orphan from her village on June 4, championed the advocacy to save her life as she was on the verge of giving up due to negligence and lack of fund, orchestrated by poverty.
It was through the efforts of the Foundation that attracted Imo state government through the State Health Insurance Agency that made them to pay for her one month medical bills which included the amputation of her right limb, while the NGO took care of her welfare and other logistics through self funding and support from some concerned members of the society.
However last Wednesday, the Founder of the organization, Chidiebube Okeoma, announced in a press statement in Owerri, the state capital, which he also made available to The Authority Newspaper that his Foundation had facilitated a prosthetic limb for the amputated orphan.
Okeoma, an activist Journalist cum humanitarian, informed that the prosthetic limb was given to the girl for 100 percent free of charge through a philanthropic contact in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which the organization utilized.
Okeoma said that while the prosthetic limb was given to the 17- year old orphan for free through his organization’s intervention, he, not his foundation took care of the cost of logistics for the prosthetic limb procedure to be a success.
Okeoma the activist journalist said” we, at Stand For Humanity Foundation are happy to announce that we have facilitated the provision of a prosthetic limb for 17- year old Racheal Onyinyechi Nwokeocha, whom we nicknamed Star Girl because of the the circumstances surrending her ordeal and how she pulled through.
“The prosthetic limb was given to her for free in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, through our contact but the founder and President of Stand For Humanity Foundation, Okeoma, personally funded the logistical cost in order to ensure that this orphan without siblings achieves her dreams of becoming a Medical Doctor in the future.
“We thank everyone who had supported us in this journey. Stand For Humanity Foundation made a vow to save her life and to support her to live her dreams, fully and we are committed to this project. Next is to enroll her in a secondary school in Awka, Anambra State” he revealed.
