You’ll recall that we announced the 3rd Phase of our #VSFCOVID19Interventions on Friday last week. We’ve been travelling non-stop since then, sorry I haven’t been reporting here, My Body is broken but below are details.
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BENUE STATE = N107,900,000 (One Hundred and Seven Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira Only)
10kg Rice
10kg Beans
10kg Maize
4Litres Veg Oil
2kg Salt
250mls Hand Sanitizers
Standard Surgical Face Masks
Reusable Face Masks
Hazmat Suits
Googles
Safety Boots
Latex Gloves
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Handed Over to Professor Anthony Ijohor (SAN), Secretary to the Benue State Government to distribute to 15 Local Governments + our 6 NGO Partners listed below to cover 6 LGs:
1) Gwer East
2) Koshisa
3) Kwande
4) Obi
5) Oju
6) Ado (suburbs)
7) Gwer West
8) Markurdi (suburbs)
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NGO PARTNERS IN BENUE.
1. Eunice Spring of Life Foundation (ESLF)
2. Nigerian Red Cross Society
3. Gender and Environmental Risk Reduction Initiative (GERI)
4. Community Links and Human Empowerment Initiative
5. Good Health Living Environmental Foundation
6. Sesor Empowerment Foundation
7. Selfworth Development Initiative
Gender Advocacy for Justice Initiative (GAJI)
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This 3rd Final Phase covers North West and North Central Geo-Political Zones – Benue – Plateau – Niger – Katsina – Kano – Kaduna & Zamfara plus National Council for Women Societies & National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs.
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We look forward to your Questions and Comments. I’ll give you granular reports from each state going forward but for Security Reasons, I’ll announce the information on Social Media after we’ve already left each state. We’re sure you understand.
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All these Items will be completely distributed within a few days to one week max.
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Our Data Collection, M & E Team are on ground in all the States & will monitor, track and report distribution along withe our NGO Partners. As you know, we can’t work with everyone so we’ve selected few NGOs across communities through a rigorous verification exercise & we’ll ensure that they stick with their mandates based on the signed MOUs our Programs Team have put in place with them.
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Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji
Chairperson, Victims Support Fund COVID-19 Task Force Cc @victimssupportfund