$10.000 Daily Trust African winner of The Year, Rosie Mashale, a.k.a. Mama Rosie Arrives Nigeria in Grand Style
IT was a most historic home coming to one of Africa’s giant
country, Nigeria for fearless
humanitarian, Lady Rosie Mashale, a.k.a. Mama Rosie, the cheerful founder of
Baphumelele Children’s Centre, who emerged winner of the 2019 Daily Trust
African of the Year
In keeping to her award to personally accept the $10.000 prize
award, she arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on last night
at about 11:52am on board Ethiopian Airline flight number ETH911 operated with
an Airbus A350-941.
However, it took her up
until 1:30pm to get through immigration clearance, collect her luggage
and access the car park where a second team of Daily Trust delegation was
waiting to receive her.
The
visibly excited Mama Rosie told a DAILY TRUST correspondent that it’s her first
time in Nigeria and was grateful to the Daily Trust for the opportunity.
She
also said she’s looking forward to knowing Nigeria more as she’s always longed
to visit.
Hear
her “This is my first time in Nigeria. I am excited to be here, definitely. I’m
looking forward to see the country really. All along, I have been longing to
come to Nigeria,” she said.
WORLD
LEADERS can reveal that Mama Rosie was announced winner, the Daily
Trust African of the Year Award, the most prestigious award by a newspaper in
Africa, in November 2019.
The decision was done by cerebral seven-member
award selection committee led by the former President of Botswana, Festus
Mogae. She won the award based on her breathtaking humanitarian services that
is seeing her save thousands of HIV-infected children who have been abandoned.
“Her continuous courage and dedication to save
the lives of thousands of abandoned children affected by HIV and AIDS”
The
abandoned children are mostly known as ‘children-no-one-wants.’ HIV and AIDS
are endemic in South Africa, infecting and killing hundreds of people, leaving
babies as orphans, many of them also infected. In 1989, when Mama Rosie moved
to 
, 
one of South Africa’s poorest townships, as a teacher there
where she saw children scrounging for food in a garbage dump, and brought them
into her home to feed them. This was the start of a remarkable programme that
has been sustained since then and has now fetch her an Iconic pan-African
award.
, one of South Africa’s poorest townships, as a teacher there
where she saw children scrounging for food in a garbage dump, and brought them
into her home to feed them. This was the start of a remarkable programme that
has been sustained since then and has now fetch her an Iconic pan-African
award.
*For
her effort and nomination, Lady Rosie Mashale,
May God continue to bless her effort
*A CERUTTI MEDIA
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