 In the wake of the new year festivities, soccer has come the way of the less privileged children, old women and indeed others residing in the slum community of Ikota in Lagos state. They are beaming with joy as they were treated to a party and gifted with food items and other materials to help alleviate their plight. All thanks to the outreach put together by the She Advancement Initiative, Tact, put to smile. Details in this report. This is a typical slum community in Ikota area of Lagos state. On a regular day, getting food to eat or eat out of livelihood is a challenge to most of the residents. Today they have a reason to celebrate and dance like other people. Convener of the She Advancement Initiative, Nikio Watosho shares on how this yearly project came to be. Driving through here and I see lots of children, working at odd hour of the day. You see some of them, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, and I spoke to one. I was like, where do you live? And she brought me here. And I saw this location and I was like, oh my goodness, there is real poverty here. Children play gaily with balloons, participate in games as it was time to dance and celebrate, all in the spirit of the season. Indeed, there are lots of freebies for all present. We catch up with some of the beneficiaries who cannot hide their excitement as they pour out incomiums on the organizers as well as prayers. I am 75 years old. So the day when we are done today, feed all the cotton. God bless you all. I am very grateful for this sister to come and give us food today. We thank God for new year food. God bless them. We will give them long life and we will multiply their work in Jesus' name. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. God bless. Nikia Omotosho has a lot of advice for Nigerians and indeed the government. She charges them to remember the poor, not only when they celebrate, but indeed every other day. Omotosho speaks alongside others. We started this because I was sitting down in the comfort of my house one day and the year was coming to an end. And I was a lot of shopping for my children, buying a lot of things. And then something just flew to my head. The child on the street out there, the mom might not have a grain of rice to cook for that child today. And that was how the vision started, like okay, the year is ending. How are the children ending the year? To the government, we know you're already doing a lot, you're already doing much in improving our country. This particular community where I am in, Ikota community, it's in a bad shape. So I encourage and beg the government to please do something. The standard of living here is very poor. If they cannot do it alone, we need, they would like to take this big, we would like to expand and go, you know, reaching out to people not just this Ikota community. I would love to do more and more as well, to go to other places, to also invite children, give this smile, give them the best they can never get from their parents. I would say this is what I love doing. So as the year 2024 comes with great expectations in hope, Nigerians are reminded to be dear brothers' keepers.