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A non-governmental organisation, Chagro Care Trust, and TY Danjuma
Foundation have donated relief materials to the internally displaced
persons.
The relief materials were donated to displaced persons from Goza in
Borno being camped in Mansutu village of Ardo Kola Local Government Area
of Taraba.
The Programme Officer of Chagro care Trust, Miss Rijimra Ande, distributed the items directly to the IDPs.
Ande said the IDPs had stayed in the rural community for three years
before they were discovered by the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugee (UNHCR).
She said the UN agency drew the organisation’s attention to the camp
which it responded immediately with a need assessment visit to the rural
community.
The programme officer called on the government, organisations and
well meaning individuals to identify with the plight of the IDPs to make
life more meaningful for them.
“To be honest, when we came for need assessment, we were tempted not
to come back due to complete lack of access road to the community.
“But the condition we saw you compelled us to find a way of bringing the intervention to you,’’ she said.
Ande noted that the organisation would soon return to the community for medical intervention for the IDPs.
On her part, Miss Janet Ajala, the Taraba Coordinator of TY Danjuma
Foundation, decried the condition of IDPs and lack of access road to
camps.
She, however, thanked Chagro Care Trust for taking the pains to
ensure that intervention reached out to the people that were not
discovered by any emergency agency for over three years of their stay.
Ajala told the IDPs that the Chairman of the foundation, retired Gen.
Theophilous Danjuma, wanted them to stay at peace with their host
community and support government efforts at ending insurgency in the
country.
Responding on behalf of the IDPs, Mr Sunday Andraus, thanked the organisations for coming to their aide at their time of need.
Andraus said they had been staying at the camp for a long time but
only the local branch of the Baptist Church that had assisted them with
some food items.
He thanked the host community for providing them with portions of
land to carry out farming activities to feed their families over the
period.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that items donated include
12 bags of rice, 58 pieces of mosquito nets, 48 jerry cans, 48 cooking
pots, sanitary pads, bathing soap, among others.
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