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Good morning. Welcome to Potter's Sex Talk. Um today I'm just going to tell you a little story. It doesn't have anything to do with sex. Rather it has to do with help. So I'm just gonna tell you a little bit um of how it started and how we got here. Um lately I haven't really posted in this anchor platform due to one or two reasons Well it's um okay for me to go do research um drop notes and drop um voice things.

It's also important for me to live, you know, to earn a living, to make money, to survive. Okay, so One of those let me just start this way, yeah. 24 octobre Yeah. An old friend of mine put up a tweet How she's tired of everything, how she wants to go rest, how things are not moving the way. They are, you know, how it's only a mum that is just keeping her anchored here with her kids. That if not she would have um gone to rest, you know, committed suicide or something like that.

And this is someone I knew way back and I used to think she w should be doing well. Because when we met she was doing well and all that, so I sent her a DM on Twitter and I asked her. Isis, yeah, things are tight right now but you need to take it easy. How are you? What's going on and all that and all that and then she comes back to me And she says, Oh, things are really crazy right now. I am so sorry. I don't even know what to do. I owe a lot of companies money.

you know, loans. I've been collecting money trying to survive. Um now she's a single mom. She has two kids. And things have been so crazily tight and those that she's owing money said they will share details everywhere online, send her contacts messages, you know, embarrass her and all that sort of She just got to a point she just had to voice out and then tell people like this is what is going on.

So I told her to just take it easy and that I'll try to do one or two things. Meanwhile, I was broke too. As a single mum myself Taking care of my daughter alone too is um a bit draining, you know, having to sort the rent, having to sort the house rent, the shop rents, having to manage, you know. So things are a bit tight for my for me myself, so I told her I was going to help, regardless.

So, um meanwhile this is something I've always wanted to do, you know, find a way to help people, even if it's not much, even if it's not um even if it won't get you know, maybe up to what they really need, but at least help them in one way or the other.

So when I started, I didn't want to use my own personal account details. I just felt okay, let me look for a payment platform online that I can use to raise funds. Then see how it goes from there. So I went on Google, I asked questions and I came to Niger Fonds. Yeah, it's a platform that used to raise money. Um this is not a paid advert, I'm just stating the fact So I registered then this story I just said, I screenshot uh messages, I put it in, I asked people for help.

And meanwhile, before I registered, I went through other people's posts and I realized people were putting 10 million, 20 million, whatever million. you know, the amount they want to raise. So when I finished registering and they asked what is the amount limit, I put twenty millionaire right there. So I went back on Twitter, I shared the link, I asked people for help. My group angles to love, I told a couple of friends like this is what I'm trying to do. Let me just see. Meanwhile

Okay, let me quickly go back to that. Meanwhile, angles to love I've mentioned it once or twice is about singles. you know, meeting from all over the world. It's a platform for singles to meet. You know, you talk to people about yourself. We have voice chat. People get to listen to your voice to get to know you. You tell us what you do and all that and all that. And if you see someone that is interested in you

That person sends you a DM. If you're interested in somebody, you send that person a DM. So we had some issues way back and then We had guys trying to take advantage of single mom. So the convenience said I should, you know, since I talk to people anyways. Said I should look for ways to help the single mom, you know.

tell them about things they should look out for, things they can do to, you know, increase themselves, how they can increase their own confidence, things they should do and not do, you know, things like that. So I still had that on my plate, having pl thinking of ways to go about that. And then

my own my friend thing came up. So I just felt okay, if we could raise funds, help single moms along the line, we could also bring them up to probably a zoom meeting, probably a m a physical meeting where we can talk about things they need. where we can encourage them on self-development, um business development, you know, mental development, just thought.

You know, we could also use the funds to help them maybe set up businesses, those that want to learn a trade or those that want to learn handwork, you know, technical path. We could teach them how to make soap, key rings. Just, you know, put something into their life that they will be able to take care of themselves and the kids.

So I went back on Twitter and I started requesting for help and all that. And then a couple of people came up and they said, Oh, my story was good, but I it seems like fraud. You know, and that, um, how did I arrive at twenty million? So I put up a notice that no. This is what actually happened and this is how I came to my 20 million. I wasn't actually expecting 20 million. I was thinking even if it's just a hundredk I was able to raise.

I'll give one or two single moms then look for ways to also, you know, let's invite people to talk to them, give them ideas of what they can do with their life.

Especially those ones that don't have anything doing right now because there are lots of them out there. They start little businesses, expense would run it down, tax and all that. So The after the whole accusation of fraud and when I put up a notice um someone came up with the fact that and she said that I came out with passion to the streets. That the foundation doesn't have structures, it doesn't have plans, it doesn't have anything put in place.

So I said, okay, thank you. I'll go back to the drawing table, then we'll come up with something. So I spoke to the convener of Angular Stolve, like okay, I'm going to need help. So he told me to pick my team, we should go back to the drawing table and make things happen. So I spoke to a couple of my friends. Okay um Gabriel, Shade, Moomi and JD, if you guys are listening to this, you guys are the best team I ever had. Yeah. Okay, so we'll we we became five.

So we started with the normal norms We had we registered an account on Twitter, on Instagram, we have a p fa a page on Facebook and then, you know, we started putting up posts Gradually anyways, we came to the table. We talked about how to help. We brought up different ideas and then we came to a conclusion that for starters, let's just make December since it's already close to the end of the year, let's just make December interesting for people. at least for the poor homes and the single moms.

Even if it's just support them with 5000 Naira for each household. Even if it's just foodstuff. Even if it's just dresses or shoes for the kids, whatever it is we're able to come up with.

Let's just do that. So that has been what has been keeping me busy. Trying to do that and trying to keep, you know, my daily life going to trying to end and sort my bills also. So we've been at it for a while. Um we were able to personally help two single moms. My friend, we were able to raise a bit of funds for her, Cottsy, our convener. And then we came across another single mom on Twitter that wanted to come inside too.

She was even very explicit about oh, please take care of my kids. I can't take care of them. At least if she is dead some someone else will take care of them and all that. So we reached out We were able to raise little funds from our own personal pockets, you know, due to the fact that they said we were trying to do further and all that. So from our own personal pockets we were able to raise money to help our

And thank goodness she's doing fine with her kids. A lot of people came through for her too. It was later we got to discover that um she had surgery. And then it cost her a lot of money, her business went down and all that, so anyways.

The point of my story this morning is not just to just come and just drop the usual message. It's more to plead. On your, you know, messy side. se você é religioso Do it for God. If you're not, just do it for humanity. There are lots of people out there that need help. On Saturday we had this um writers meeting. their paw bikers. this Ikurodu Agade thing going on. So we had this riding from Ikurodu to the world thingy on Saturday, this past Saturday. That's thirteenth of November.

and you know while we were at the town hall you know after the whole display after the whole writing about I saw close to like three kids. There was even one that helped us all through. You know, helped us serve, help us move around and all that and You know, asking him questions at the end of the day I realized the little five hundred naira, one thousand naira we're given to him is not going to change his life.

He's a young boy he's living on the streets. He doesn't have a phone. You can get in touch with him t um you can get in touch with him. I actually told him to meet me up at Town Hall tomorrow. That's Wednesday. Um probably I would have been able to come up with one or two things on how to help him. You know, I look around me and I see people like this. I see mothers struggling to pay kids, kids not going to school.

Kids without parents that just sleep anywhere that they just move around and just beg for money just to survive daily. These are the little things that I feel we want to make impact.

You know? So myself on my team. We have flyers out on Twitter, on Instagram, on Facebook. I'll be um adding that to this voice message. So if you ever have time to listen to this. Whatever it is, your$1,£1,£10, 50 pounds. Oh, I forgot to impute this. Hmm. Um Someone sent us money on Twitter and I really, really, really, really appreciate her. She came through one of my team. She's my team's um stepmom. Yeah. And it's interesting that the first external phone phones we got

or the program. It's mainly from someone outside the country. From someone on Twitter, a name is Macha. At history at Love if you have a listen to this thank you thank you thank you so much You were the first help we actually got from outsider apart from the funds we've been trying to raise personally from our own pockets. So thank you to Masha if you see this again. If you listen to this, you can see it.

Okay, so guys, that's about it. Um, whatever it is you feel you can help with, God bless you. May it be returned to you in a thousand folds. Your one thousand uh, your five thousand uh your ten thousand uh and if you feel you don't want to use phones, you don't want to use cash, you feel you have food stops, you have carton of indomit, you have milk.

You have detergents, you have shoes, you have socks. I don't know whatever it is you do and you feel oh someone can benefit from this. Reach out to us. We'll find a way to connect you with whoever will need it, or we'll find a way to make sure those things reach out to those who need it. Thank you so much. Thank you for listening to this. Yeah, I know it's not my normal no but we'll come back to that soon. Bye.