Members of the Anambra State Association World Wide, have arrived the state for their 2015 free medical mission.
The group, comprising medical experts in various fields from different countries of the world are in the state to provide an eight-day medical service to six communities of the state.
Briefing newsmen before their departure for Oko in OrumbaNorth Council Area which is their first port of call, the chairman of the Association, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, said they came in with drugs worth eight hundred thousand dollars, adding that ASA Worldwide this time around, came with a let of welfare packages apart from health care delivery.
According to Dr. Anakwenze, their members from South Africa are in the State to award scholarships to students at various levels of education who will be selected from the three senatorial districts.
Dr. Anakwenze further explained that there is a group among them who, came solely for the motherless babies homes in the state while some others came for agricultural programmes, listing the six benefiting communities as Oko, Abagana, Obos,i Ihembosi, Ozubulu and Oba.
In their separate speeches, Mr. Christian Onuorah from Anam in Anambra West Council Area, who is also the Vice President of ASA World Wide and Mrs. Ngozi Pama, from Ozubulu noted that their mission is to better the lives of Ndi Anambra from the blessings they received from God.
Others, Mrs. Teresa Kemp, Osinachi a historian who donated all the glasses for the mission and an Obosi – born member of the group who is an expert in agro based projects in Canada, stressed that no country can develop without diaspora impact, as government alone cannot develop the state.