By Anolu Vincent
Copyright independent
OWERRI – A human rights organisation, Stand For Humanity Founda-tion, has facilitated the provi-sion of a prosthetic limb for 17-year-old Racheal Onyinyechi Nwokeocha from Umunnachi community in the Obowo Local Government Area of Imo State.
Our correspondent reports that the right limb of the or-phan was amputated on June 10, 2025, after medical investigations proved that the limb, which got seriously damaged in car crash in December 2024, was not sal-vageable.
The Foundation, which had rescued the orphan from her vil-lage on June 4, championed the advocacy to save her life.
While the Imo State govern-ment, through the State’s Health Insurance Agency, paid for her one month medical bills, which included the amputation of her right limb, the Foundation took care of her welfare and other lo-gistics through self-funding and support from some concerned members of the society.
In a statement issued in Ow-erri, Chidiebube Okeoma, the Founder, Stand For Humanity Foundation, announced that his group had facilitated a prosthetic limb for the amputated orphan.
Okeoma, an activist journal-ist cum humanitarian, disclosed that the prosthetic limb was giv-en to the girl 100 percent free through a contact in Port Har-court, Rivers State, which the organisation utilised.
He said that while the pros-thetic limb was given to the orphan free through his organ-isation’s intervention, he, not his foundation, took care of the cost of logistics for the prosthetic limb procedure to be a success.
He said: “We, at Stand For Hu-manity Foundation, are happy to announce that we have facilitat-ed the provision of a prosthetic limb for 17-year old Racheal On-yinyechi Nwokeocha, who we nicknamed Star Girl because of the circumstances surrounding her ordeal and how she pulled through.
“The prosthetic limb was giv-en to her for free of charge in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, through our contacts, but the founder and president of Stand For Hu-manity Foundation, Chidiebube Okeoma, personally funded the logistical cost in order to en-sure that this orphan without siblings achieves her dreams of becoming a medical doctor in the future.”
