The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has distributed relief materials to 500 displaced persons and people impacted by disasters in Bunkure communities in Kano state
The Director. General NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Habib Ahmed, disclosed this on Monday in Kano while flagging off the distribution of palliatives to internally displaced persons.
He added that the King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Centre (KSrelief), has donated assorted food items to the National Emergency Management Agency, for distribution to 500 displaced persons and people impacted by disasters.
Speaking on behalf of the director general, the NEMA Director of Planning, Research and Forecasting, Hajiya Fatima Kasim, highlighted that, KSrelief’s collaboration with NEMA, dates back to 2018 – 2021 when it donated relief materials in form of food baskets to IDPs in Borno, Yobe and Zamfara states.
According to him, the 500 food baskets donated to Kano state, would go a long way in contributing to the recovery process of the beneficiaries that disasters have impacted.
“Each of the benefitting households received, rice, beans, masa vita, tomato paste, groundnut oil, salt, cubes”
Earlier, the Executive Secretary, of Kano State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr Saleh Aliyu Jili commended the foundation for the kind gesture.
He noted that 500 vulnerable households from Bunkure communities, received relief materials, saying that, the donation is the first of its kind in Kano.
Dr Jili then called on the beneficiaries to use the items judiciously, and appreciated the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and its Kano – Jigawa territorial office, for influencing and directing the donation to the state.
Also speaking on occasion, the Deputy Counsel General Saudi Embassy Kano, Alhaji Nawaf Muhammad, explained that the foundation had provided 8,050 food baskets to Kano, Yobe and Borno states.
He stated that KSrelief had been executing charity, which targets the needy such as those profiled by NEMA and SEMA in Kano.
Some of the beneficiaries, Ibrahim Tazarce and Abdulaziz Muhammad, while interviewed, called for the sustainability of the charity program and commended the NEMA and SEMA for the kind gesture.
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