First lady donates relief items to refugees at Dalori Camp

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January 2, 2016 4:39 PM

The first lady was represented by the State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Fanta Baba-Shehu at the distribution exercise which had pregnant women and nursing mothers as target beneficiaries.

Yesterday, 1st of January 2015, the wife of the Nigerian President, Mrs Aisha Buhari donated relief materials to one thousand, three hundred and fifty (1,350) displaced women taking refuge at the Dalori camp, a camp for Internally Displaced Persons, (IDP) in Maiduguri, Borno state.

The first lady was represented by the State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Fanta Baba-Shehu at the distribution exercise which had pregnant women and nursing mothers as target beneficiaries.

The exercise according to her, was set up as a means of providing food nutrients to the pregnant women and nursing mothers who were in need of nutrition.

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Quoting the Minister, “We are here to flag off the distribution of relief materials to 1350 pregnant women and nursing mothers at the Dalori IDP camp in Maiduguri. The items were provided by Mrs. Buhari, for onward distribution to the beneficiaries.

“When the President’s wife visited Borno last week, she raised and inaugurated an 11-member high-powered panel on the distribution of all donated relief materials to IDPs in the 26 camps in Maiduguri, Bama, Biu and Benisheikh."

“Over 50 per cent of the displaced persons in camp, comprises of women who are either pregnant or nursing mothers, since the camp was established by National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the state government to resettle all fleeing displaced persons from five councils in the state.

According to her, the first lady is very passionate about women and children, hence the inauguration of the program.

“Over 50 per cent of the IDPs in camp are women and that was why the wife of the President, Aisha was passionate about women and children for the inauguration of this relief materials distribution programme.

Hajiya Baba-Shehu also said that they started the distribution from the Dalori camp because it has the largest number of Internally displaced persons, most of whom are women.

In her words, “We decided to start from the Dalori camp because it has the largest number of IDPs about 20,000 persons. More than half of the IDPs are women."

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