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IDPs
Lagos, June 10, 2017 (NAN) The Muhammadu Indimi Foundation on Saturday said it would unlock the potential in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria to address hunger and poverty caused by the Boko Haram insurgence.
Hajia Ameena Indimi, the foundation Senior Executive Director, said in a statement in Lagos that food items and financial packages worth N100 million had been donated to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri, Borno.
Indimi said that the packages were presented to no fewer than 28, 000 beneficiaries in different camps in the state.
According to her, this is the second visit of Indimi Foundation to Maiduguri to provide relief to those that were displaced by the Boko Haram insurgence.
She said that no fewer than 10, 000 people also received food items and cash from the foundation in 2016.
“This year, we saw the need to increase the items to bags of various staple foods, which were distributed directly to women for upkeep of their families.
“Also, this time, we targeted no fewer than 28, 000 women, men and children and we will continue to participate in the rebuilding of the North-East,’’ Indimi said.
She said that the gesture was part of the foundation`s commitment to provide succour to the IDPs after assessing their needs in 2016.
According to her, this is a way of supporting the social and economic reintegration of IDPs to the society as was being championed by Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno.
She, however, said that the foundation was also working on the establishment of housing, healthcare and education facilities in Borno before the end of 2019.
Indimi said that plans were on going to acquire about 2,000 hectares of land in Bama to build modern farms for some of the returnees from IDP camps.
She said that the foundation had distributed thousands of relief items to eight IDPs camps during the ongoing Ramadan in Maiduguri.
The camps include Madinatu, Bakassi, NYSC, Kadua and Goni Kachallari, saying that the foundation had also visited some patients in the State Specialist Hospital and other hospitals.
A mother of eight, Hajia Hamsatu Abdullahi, one of the IDPs at Madinatu Camp, said “ this donation by the foundation is timely“.
Abdullahi, in her mid-30s, said that she was looking up to NGOs for assistance to return to her village in Kundiga Local Government Area. (NAN)
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Edited by Emmanuel Mogbede/Olagoke Olatoye
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