..Decries severe hardship, begs for more support from FG, state, spirited individuals
By Ujah Simon, Kaduna
An NGO has donated relief materials to IDP’s as part of effort toward reducing the hardship been faced by most of the widows and orphans affected by crises or those forced to migrate to other community due to the menace of kidnapping and other insecurity challenges affecting their communities
The NGO, ”Initiative for collaborative quality education” under the leadership of Mrs Elizabett Nuhu Garba, distributed the Foodstuff and other Humanitarian assistance with the sole aims of helping women, children and elderly people at the Kujama IDps Camp, in Kaduna state.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after distributing the relief materials, Mrs Garba said, it has became mandatory for her to help the needy at this crucial time in view of the hardship most women and children in the camp are facing. According to her, the Camp which is located inside Kujama community in southern part of kaduna, has large number of widows and orphans that needed an assistance. “it took her some months to gather money to buy those foodstuff to the IDPs, the lDPs need more help because of the number of children’s that are staying in the Camp” The IDP Contain Adara ,Gbagyi and other tribe that were affected in southern kaduna crisis while some where force to stay in the camp due to how Kidnappers in their Various Community chaze- them out. Mrs Garba says ,she brought Cloths, Foods and other necessary items which can help some of the women in the Camp.
She then called on wealthy individual ,corporate organization, state and federal Government to support the children and women that are residing in the Camp with other assistance The General Overseer of Christ Evangelical intercessory Fellowship Ministry, Pastor Yohanna Butu, who accompany the NGO to the Camp said, there is need for every Nigerians to always assist one another.
He said, the number of refugees, widows, orphans due to ethno-religious crises, Banditry, Kidnapping is on the rise, hence the need for state and federal Government to double-up effort toward bringing an end to the situation
The Christian cleric, called on NEMA, SEMA, other humanitarian organization to help the IDPs One of the women in the Camp Name withheld thanks the NGOs for remembering them, as she called on other Christians leaders to always remember them.
