From Muawuya Bala Idris, Katsina
A Katsina-based non-governmental organization, Gwagware Foundation, has launched the distribution of bags of rice to less privileged women in the state.
The distribution ceremony held at Mani Local Government Secretariat, is for the beneficiaries drawn from the 12 Local Government Areas in Daura Senatorial Zone of the state.
The Chairman of the Foundation, Yusuf Aliyu Musawa, while launching the distribution, said the food assistance programme, which was supported by the Honourable Minister of Arts, Culture and Creatively Economy, Hajiya Hannatu Musawa, is meant to complement the foundation’s activities toward assisting less privileged persons.
Musawa said the food assistance programme would cover all the 34 local government areas of the state.
“This programme aligns with President Bola Ahmad Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and the Katsina state Governor Malam Dikko Radda’s initiatives for uplifting the life of the people of the state is meant for the less privileged persons cutting across orphans, widows, disabled and other vulnerable person,” he said.
“And we are targetting 1200 vulnerable persons in which every zone in the state will get its share,” Musawa added.
The chairman restated the commitment of the Gwagware Foundation towards assisting less privileged persons, saying the rice assistance programme for the Funtua and Katsina will soon be launched at the zones.
He said various empowerment and assistance programmes to assist less privileged persons were executed severally by the Foundation.
“We have executed so many empowerment and assistance programmes; this is the eighteenth we are performing today”, he emphasised.
He recalled that the foundation recently assisted 1500 out of school children with school uniforms, books and other educational materials.
“We are now planning to distribute 3000 sweaters and blankets to prison inmates, Almajiris and Internally Displaced persons, which are aimed at alleviating suffering they experienced during harmattan season as it is unfolding,” Musawa added.
Speaking earlier, the Daura Zonal Chairman, of Gwagware Foundation, Alhaji Salisu Kawarin Kudi, thanked Hajiya Hannatu Musawa for the rice donation to the people in the zone, also thanked the founder of the Foundation, Governor of Katsina state, Malam Dikko Radda whose initiative has continued to yield positive results to the less privileged persons in the society and Katsina people in particular.
In their separate remarks, Mani local government chairman, Alhaji Yunusa Bagiwa and Durbin Katsina, District Head of Mani, Alhaji Babani Isah Mani, appreciated the foresight of the Gwagware Foundation for coming up with the initiative toward assisting the less privileged persons in the area.
The chairman and District Head, who applauded the gesture by the foundation, expressed their belief that the food assistance will alleviate the suffering being experienced by the beneficiaries, especially in this trying time.
They called on the beneficiaries to use the food assistance for the purpose it was meant for to achieve the desired objective.
Highlights of the event include the symbolic distribution of the 25-kilogram of rice assistance to some of the beneficiaries.
