- For Her Remarkable Success With SHERI Care Foundation (SCARF)
Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola, the pretty wife of the Governor of the state of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is a humble and easy going woman. She is very caring and accommodating, traits which have endeared her to the people of the state of Osun. For the past 8 years, she has been very, very active but, in a quiet but effective way, positively affecting the lives of many Osun people. These are some of the reasons why City People Magazine is set to honour, her in a few weeks time, for her remarkable efforts in supporting and helping the people of the state of Osun. Lets tell you a lot more about what this lovely woman has been doing quietly, without noise in Osun. Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola, is the President and Founder of the Sheri Care Foundation (SCARF).
Until her emergence as the wife of the Governor of the State of Osun, Mrs. Aregbesola has been a symbol of motherhood and an exceptionally supportive wife to her husband. Since the inauguration of his husband’s administration, Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola has showcased an exemplary profile of a mother to all. She has been an epitome of care and love as the chief host in the State Government House. Her concern for the welfare and happiness of people prompted her to establish a Foundation named Sheri Care Foundation with the acronym (SCARF). It’s activities revolve around care for the aged, the needy, people with physical challenges, women, widows and the young ones. She also has special interest in the issues of environmental conservation especially Climate Change and Environmental Sanitation.
She has devoted a lot of her energy, resources and time, as the President of SCARF to a statewide grassroots campaign to bring about attitudinal change among the people in the area of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). Her focus is to engender total Community Sanitation. This campaign has taken her to various parts of the State meeting the rural poor and the needy. The Campaign has assisted in
making many communities in the state engage in self corrective measures by constructing indigenous and affordable toilet facilities in their homes and communities thereby reducing diseases associated with the unclean practiceof Open Defecation.
Her efforts in the area of Sanitation, which led to hundreds of rural communities becoming Open Defecation Free and mobilising her colleagues in other states towards embracing CLTS, have been so outstanding thereby attracting recognition by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The Fund in recognition of her personal engagements and campaigns to eradicate open defecation appointed her CLTS Ambassador. Working in tandem with the goal of CLTS, Mrs. Aregbesola is currently taking on the campaign to stop female genital mutilation (FGM) otherwise known as female circumcision in the State. The resolve by SCARF to embark on this latest campaign is sequel to the dangerous implications of the practice of FGM on girls and women. This campaign is being carried out with the active collaboration of the United Nations Fund for Population Adivities (UNFPA). As the founder and President of Sheri Care Foundation, Mrs Aregbesola. She has continuously promoted academic excellence among children of the poor through educational programmes such as debates, spelling, quiz and scholarship.
Born In 1960 in the northern nigerian city of Kaduna, Kaduna State, she is a graduate of Catering and Hotel Management from the Lagos State Polytechnic. Mrs Areqbesola’s post qualification professional experience spans industries including the Hospitality, Print, Aviation and Education sectors.
-Seye Kehinde
