The Romeo Odey Cares Foundation is set to feed over 1,000 orphans in Calabar, Cross River State on Tuesday.

The foundation also disclosed its plans to launch two real estate companies and a hospitality firm in Lagos by 2021.

Its founder and business magnate, Romeo Odey, said in a statement that he had concluded plans to touch lives of children in some selected orphanage homes and children from the streets of Cross River while he formally launched his palatial edifice in his home town.

According to him, the move was part of his decision to give back to humanity, having passed through some difficult times earlier in life.

He said the foundation would launch two housing estates and a hospitality firm by 2021 with the aim of engaging young men and women in productive ventures to minimise idleness and reduce crime rate.

Odey said, “It’s our contribution to national growth and development. We want to put smiles on the face of those orphans and other children in the street. It’s not their fault to be indigent; what they lack is opportunity to excel.

“We need to help them. I believe they are future political, religious and economic leaders of Nigeria.”

He urged the federal and state governments to step up and take responsibility for the children on the street.

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