Isaac Kertyo, Makurdi
Disturbed by the level of poverty bedeviling the women and youths in Benue State, a non governmental organization, Nick Agule Foundation, NAF, has embarked on sustainable empowerment projects aimed at ameliorating the sufferings being experienced by the less privileged individuals in the state.
Founder of the organization, Mr Nick Agule who disclosed this to Day Break in an exclusive interview in Makurdi at the weekend, explained that the focus of the foundation is the build sustainable empowerment projects that will impact positively the lives of the less privileged persons.
” For us in Nick Agule Foundation, we are looking for sustainability. We know that there are other NGOs that are doing great works in providing short term relief to the less privileged, but we are looking for sustainability. So instead of running a medical outfit, we look forward to building a clinic or a cottage hospital for the community.
Instead of giving scholarship to few children, we will rather go build a school so that all children will benefit from. Instead of giving them a tanker of water or sachet of water, we will rather dig a bole hole so that the community people will have access to quality water”, he said.
Mr Agule hinted that the foundation’s main aim is to empower the women and the youths economically, explaining that when people are empowered economically, they have what it takes to live better lives.
To this end, the NGO has put in place modalities to fund the setting up of small businesses for people especially those in the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps.
” Nick Agule Foundation intends to embark on projects where we fund the setting up of small businesses for people especially in the IDPs camps, and by the time we come out with our education programs, our water programs, our agricultural programs, these will all be for the empowerment of the indigent people”.
