At the IDPs camp in Zang Commercial Secondary School Bukuru in Jos, which accommodates about one hundred and ten families, totaling seven hundred and twenty six people, the IDP’s were radiant in receiving the items with gratitude to the good gesture of the foundation.
The camp director Pastor Darong Mancha who
received the items on behalf of the displaced persons, highlighted the basic
challenges of the camp to the issue of water, food, health and the need for
drugs for the sick IDP’s.
Mr Mancha posited:
“We
are grateful to Ifeklyne Charity Foundation and other NGOs that are helpful to
the plight of the displaced persons, the camp is gradually reducing due to the
integration of some of them with the community through job opportunities
creating humanitarian services and missionary works. Food, detergents, drugs is
of great essence, and at the moment we have a fifty-year-old woman who has
kidney problem and is currently on dialysis. She needs about six million naira
for transplant. And when they get sick most times drugs is a big issue, that is
why we can only thank God and continue to pray for organizations like yours to
continually help the displaced person’s until they finally find succor“.
Stating the reasons for the humanitarian work
embarked upon by Ifeklyne Charity Foundaton, Mr Ifeaka Innocent Ogbolime says;
“It
is inline with our policy as a foundation to identify with people that are displaced,
traumatized or less privileged in the society, trying to meet their immediate
needs and see how we can give them hope, because we believe once there is life
there is hope and we are all Nigerians irrespective of any region of the
country we belong, that is why we came all the way from Lagos to Jos and Bauchi
to give out food items and materials to the IDPs in identifying with their
plight”.
The representative of the IDPs in Bauchi Mr
Musa Shehu who is from Gwoza, one of the towns worst hit by incessant attacks
from Boko Haram echoes the situation.
“Boko
Haram have killed our families, abducted our women and children and have
rendered us homeless, we miraculously found our way to Bauchi, we are in need
of accommodation, we are striving with insufficient food, the houses we stay
here in Turum we rent to the tune of N150, 000, N100, 000 and N50, 000
respectively, we have families from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa at this camp and we
have about 56 households, approximately 400 individuals. We are grateful to
Ifeklyne Charity Foundation for bringing these items by themselves from Lagos, because
most of our leaders that are supervising food materials donated divert it for
their personal use.”
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