Nollywood actress Foluke Daramola-Salako, a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University. is the founder of Passion Against Rape in Africa, PARA. According to her,the aim at PARA Africa foundation, is to curb rape and bring its perpetrators to book in Africa and also to help the abandoned and helpless aged actors, who have contributed in no small measures to the growth, development and survival of our movie industry in Nigeria live happily, healthily and productively again.
Foluke revealed in an interview with The Punch newspaper that she was raped while she was a teenager.
In her words she said “I always feel sad, when some of these aged and ‘obscene’ generational actors call me on phone, most times, to ask me to help with money, that under normal circumstances, they should be able to afford to get by themselves to take care of their certain immediate needs.
Some of them call me in the dead of the evenings to ask for ridiculous amounts as low as 3000 naira to buy food or drugs to take care of their health issues.
Sometimes, I find it difficult to sleep off it, and so, I decided to come up with the idea of the gesture of this Nolly veteran social welfare intervention initiative to help raise and build a mutual benefits social trust funds into a pension and life care scheme to progressively ensure they live a better life, under the care of my NGO and that of a selected and credible pension managers organisation(s) we are going to be partnering with to jointly run the initiative.
This is my passion for the course and this is what I shall be committed to do in the course of the present time
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