Foundation distributes food, others to over 7, 000 Borno IDPs

By : Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri

Date: 19 January 2023 4:06am WAT

[FILES] In this photo taken on September 15, 2016 women and children queue to enter one of the Unicef nutrition clinics at the Muna makeshift camp which houses more than 16,000 IDPs (internaly displaced people) on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless. In July, the United Nations said nearly 250,000 children under five could suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone and one in five -- some 50,000 -- could die. / AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS

The T 200 Foundation has distributed food, drinks and other relief materials to over 7, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno State.

The fed displaced persons include 4, 195 children between the ages of 0-five and five to 17, 1, 555 women and 2, 250 men at the Christian Association in Nigeria (CAN) EYN IDP camp, Maiduguri, the state capital.

Distributing the food, drinks and other relief items, yesterday, in Maiduguri, the Executive Director, Emmanuel Osadebay disclosed that; “We’re feeding hungry persons living in IDP camps in the Northeast,” adding that the displaced persons were in camps for over eight years, with inadequate food to overcome hunger.

He added that the Foundation also provides grants that support local services including food and shelter for the IDPs affected by the over a decade conflict in the state.

“Our objective was to work together in providing assistance to those most in need for both food and shelter,” he said.
Speaking on the IDP children, he said that they are awarded with packaged gifts containing food, drinks, biscuits and chocolates for winning in the memorization of the 26 alphabets, counting from one-100 and current affairs.