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A Non Governmental Organization, Victim support fund, (VSF) has distributed food items to vulnerable citizens of Kogi State based in Lokoja, the capital.
The exercise was in collaboration with the Challenged Parenthood Initiative (CPI), which is also an NGO.
The event took place on Wednesday as part of phase IV VSF Covid-19 intervention project for vulnerable population in Lokoja.
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The Executive Director of CPI, Eunice Abimbola Agbogun said the Nigeria Foundation for Support of Victims of Terrorism — Victim Support Fund (VSF) is a programme sponsored by an NGO that provides interventions to support victims who have been affected by terrorism and other forms of calamity like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mrs Agbogun explained that the Emergency Support Programme is aimed at strengthening food supply to vulnerable households that were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
ccorodng to her, CPI and other NGOs have rolled out different intervention programmes to help alleviate the health, social and economic hardship caused by COVID-19 on citizens of Kogi State, since it’s outbreak.
TheNewsGuru.com recalls that Chairman of the Victims Support Fund Committee, General TY Danjuma (Rtd), had on the 30th of March 2020, set up a Taskforce to drive VSF intervention on the Coronavirus pandemic.
The taskforce was charged with the mandate to design interventions that will directly contribute to the Federal Government’s prevention and mitigation strategy, which has been through the provision of food support to vulnerable families/households as palliative measures.
Having successfully implemented her phases 1- 3 interventions in 29 States and the FCT through the provision of food palliatives, medical consumables, personal protective equipment; water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and institutional supports of various degrees; the need for a national coverage/focus on its interventions has therefore necessitated phase IV of the COVID-19 intervention, TheMewsGuru.com further captures.
Items distributed were bags of rice, wheats, garri, vegetable oil and salt.
A total of 150 vulnerable persons benefited from the Victims support fund in Lokoja Local Government Area in Kogi State
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