The Nigerian Red Cross Society, in collaboration with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has launched financial support for 7,300 vulnerable children and women in the three local government areas of Zamfara State: Tsafe, Gusau, and Shinkafi.
Speaking during yesterday’s distribution of the money to the targeted beneficiaries in Gusau, the state capital, the secretary general of the Red Cross Society, Dr. Abubakar Kende, said the aim is to support vulnerable children and women, especially to afford their needs in terms of education and basic health services.
Kende stated that the selected beneficiaries would be provided with cash ranging from N28,500 to N114,000, depending on the size of the benefiting family, all with a view to alleviating the hardship they were thrown into by the lingering security challenges bedevilling their communities.
According to him, the exercise would continue especially across the most hard hit communities that cannot work on farms and are extremely poor to attend to schools, as well as afford basic health services.
