Enrique Iglesias thanks "Yolanda" child survivors for Valentine cards

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Thanks so much to the children of the Philippines & @SaveTheChildren who made me this special valentine. #HappyValentinesDay Support @ bit.ly/hearts4kids

Posted by Enrique Iglesias onSunday, February 14, 2016

International singer Enrique Iglesias thanked kindergarten Yolanda survivors from Tacloban City after he received handmade Valentine cards from them for the day of hearts.

I am honored to receive these hopeful messages from children in the Philippines. My fans have embraced this project in more ways than I could have imagined, and their generosity is going to make a big difference for kids in crises, Iglesias said in an interview.

Iglesias is one of the many foreign celebrities who help children that have been affected by calamity in different parts of the world through the #Hearts4Kids T-shirt campaign in partnership with Save the Children, an international non-governmental organization that promotes childrens rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries.

The international recording star received the Valentine cards last Friday while he was on tour to promote his 10th studio album called s*x and Love.

Typhoon Yolanda took a tremendous toll on children. I would like to thank Enrique Iglesias for his support to the children of Yolanda and to vulnerable children around the world, said Save the Children Philippines country director Ned Olney.

The plight of the Filipino children is near and dear to the popstars heart as his mother is a Filipina.

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About 1.2 billion valentine cards purchased yearly Official

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Women purchase about 85 per cent of an estimated 1.2 billion valentine cards that are sold worldwide annually, Felicia Bello, the Matron, Landmark University Medical Centre, Omu-Aran, has said.

Ms Bello said this at a health counselling initiative organised for secondary school students in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara, on Friday.

Quoting statistics from the World Greeting Card Association, Ms Bello said the figure had made Valentines Day, the second most popular card exchange celebration after Christmas.

She said that the official card purchase figure for Christmas celebration was an estimated 2.6 billion cards globally.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the counselling activity tagged: Health Counselling toward Valentine was organised by Landmark University Community Development Impact Initiative (LMUCDII).

No fewer than 150 students participated in the counselling initiative.

Ms Bello said in spite of the fact that Valentines Day celebration had transformed into a global celebration of love, many persons, particularly the youth, celebrated the day wrongly.

Many people are introduced to habits that will destroy their destiny.

Many young girls from age 10 years to 15 years are defiled on the night of Valentines Day, with some of them ending up with HIV or unwanted pregnancy.

Many are initiated into cultism and other wicked associations some unknowingly as such celebrations usually start at odd hours, she said.

The matron, therefore, cautioned the students to shun all the negative and anti-social aspects of Valentine Days celebration.

She urged them to only embrace those positive aspects which had to do with sharing of affection, gifts, food items and even ideas that could enhance their future.

A resource person, Olubunmi Joseph-Fadipe, who presented a paper on Valentine, Love and G*d, urged the students to always allow G*d be their guide in their day-to-day activities, particularly on Valentines Day.

She bemoaned the fact that most Valentine Days celebrations nowadays had negated the original objectives of its innovators, saying that the development was doing more harm than good to the society.

Joseph-Fadipe said: Todays Valentines Day celebration, especially in this part of the world, has been hijacked by anti-social vices.In his remark, Abiodun Okunola, the Chairman of LMUCDII, said the counselling activity was aimed at sensitising the students to the need to eschew ungodly habits in their celebration of Valentines Day.

He said that the institution, through the initiative, had made donations to orphanages, while looking at practical ways of making agriculture more attractive to the youth, in partnership with Omu-Aran Youth Forum.

It is our belief that with the education and information which the students were able to garner from the counselling, they would be able to jealously safeguard their future, Mr. Okunola said.

Speaking, Oluwatomisin Jegede, a student of Landmark University Secondary School, Omu-Aran, said the counselling activity had greatly enhanced her knowledge on the positive and negative aspects of the Valentines Day celebration.

The schools which participated in the programme include Omu-Aran High School; Government Secondary School, Omu-Aran; Government Christian College, Omu-Aran; Victory Model College; Aperan Comprehensive College and Ofe-Aran Commercial College.(NAN)

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