Nigeria Red Cross Society Capacity Building Fund in Niger State has gifted 110 vulnerable women and people with special needs with dignity kits.
The Nigeria Red Cross Society Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Prevention of Sexual Expectation Abuse officer, Abuja National Headquarters, Halima Momoh, conducted the registration and distribution of the kits at the old people’s home and orphanage in Minna yesterday.
She explained that people with special needs and the vulnerable are mostly neglected, hence the need for inclusion in the Red Cross intervention and activities to ensure a holistic approach.
Halima Momoh emphasised that the Dignity Kits targeted women of reproductive age, stressing that they were the perfect people who needed the items.
She said the Nigeria Red Cross was working in six states of Niger, Plateau, Kogi, Nasarawa, Benue, and Kaduna on the intervention.
Halima Momoh stated that such interventions greatly assist in enabling the Nigeria Red Cross to scale up and expand its inclusion of people with special needs and vulnerability.
Halima Momoh stressed that post-distribution monitoring would be carried out to ensure that the items are judiciously used for their intended purpose and to determine their benefits to the beneficiaries.
Two beneficiaries, Farida Yakubu and Hadiza Haliru, expressed happiness with the gesture, saying it would help cushion the effects of the hardships.
