Jaiz Foundation Provides N7m Worth Of Tools To Empower IDPs In Borno

Jaiz Charity and Development Foundation and its partners, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the American University of Nigeria (AUN) have reached out to 120 IDPs in Borno state with empowerment tools worth N7m.

The empowerment program consist of training as well as providing tools for the victim of the insurgency in the North East to compliment the effort of the government.

The Executive Director of the foundation Dr Abdullahi Shuaib, disclosed this development to news men.

He noted that the organisation sponsored the livelihoods intervention for sustainability through the UNHCR while AUN provided the resource persons that trained the beneficiaries for two months adding that, the pitiable conditions of the IDPs and their inability to access the larger market for economic activities motivated the foundation to partner with UNHCR to build the capacity of the IDPs and host community with a view to improving their livelihoods.

Shuaib said “The 120 beneficiaries comprised 100 women and 20 men were trained and given working tools to operate and begin to earn a livelihood.

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“The tools include fully packaged beverage business, groundnut and palm oil extraction business, cooking and consumable business, locally produced spaghetti business and locally baked beans business among others.

“All the beneficiaries were equally provided with start-up capitals in order to assist them to start well and grow their businesses.”