Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Every Child Deserves to Go to School
Every child, no matter the race, ability or status deserves to go to school. They deserve to be respected and treated with dignity. Quality education should not be an exclusive right of children who are physically fit and able to sit with the right posture. The fact that a child looks or acts differently from […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Learn About Disability & Help Reduce the Ignorance
A few weeks ago, a school proprietress called me to speak with a parent. The woman had withdrawn her son from school because someone had insulted her by referring to her son who had cerebral palsy in a cruel and demeaning manner. Last month, I met a proprietress who lost eighty percent of her students […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Finding a School for Nimmy
One of the joys of motherhood is to see your children go to school. It is such a pleasant sight to see them in their cute little dresses or shirt and shorts, wearing socks and tiny shoes, carrying little backpacks and lunch boxes. Some women start ‘shopping’ for a school for their children even before […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: All Children are Welcome
It will be a thing of joy to see the above caption written boldly on the doorpost of junior churches all over the world. That it doesn’t matter the colour of your skin, whether you are cool or not so cool, whether you have an impairment or not but that a child is seen as […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: See My Child & You Behold My Faith
My friend told me the touching story of a special needs mum. Renovation and expansion work was being done at the church that this special needs mum attended and she decided to make a suggestion. She walked up to the leader in charge of the reconstruction and respectfully asked that a ramp (a sloping surface […]
My sunshine, Oluwalonimi is five years old today
My sunshine, Oluwalonimi is five years old today; she has come a long way and I am grateful. It has been five years of learning and re-learning. Five years of healing and forgiving. It has not been easy but God has been faithful. I have learnt to be happy in spite of my challenges because […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: My Faith & My Child {Part II}
When my daughter Nimmy was just a little over a year old, her paediatrician recommended that we take her to a neurologist for an assessment. She was assessed by a professor at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. At the end of her assessment, she was graded as a stage 5 (stage 1 being least affected […]
