In the spirit of the yuletide and service to humanity, the Alpha female Network has reached out to 100 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) with medical supplies, clothes and food items in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

Founder of the group, Rita Damian, said the outreach is aimed at touching lives of the less privileged, especially those that have been displaced from their homes due to insurgency and poverty.

Speaking at the maiden outreach of the network at the Kaura IDPs camp, hosting those displaced from Borno and Adamawa states at the weekend, in Abuja, Damien said her team will be conducting checks and mental health talks to women on their overall wellbeing as well as raising more awareness on girl child training and protecting them against rape, which is prevalent in IDPs camps.

She said: “We chose to come and help other people who we know are the less privileged just to show them some love and we came along with food items, drugs, medical check-up kits, clothes and other things.

“We already have visited this camp about twice and we have organised our intervention targeting different groups of women such as the old women, women in business, breastfeeding mothers and pregnant women who will be able to get food, boxes of relief items, medical check-up and free drugs.”

According to Damian, out of the 100 beneficiaries, 70 of them are women because “we believe that women are crucial to the society, so if you can actually impact a woman’s life, you can impact on their families as well.”

She explained that the Alpha Female Network is a community of female entrepreneurs and career professionals who come together to build, impact and groom well rounded women in their areas of endeavours.

A beneficiary and women leader at the camp, Madam Hannatu Katghaya, said the visit of the team has again raised the hope of displaced families and individuals in the camp because life has not been easy for the community.

She said the visit of well-meaning Nigerians to IDP camps has kept many of them hopeful as groups often give them more relief items than even the government.