Uba Sani Foundation Donates Food Items, Cash To Orphans, Patients

Kaduna State governor, Senator Uba Sani, has marked his 55th birthday by donating food items and cash to orphans and patients across Kaduna and Zaria, respectively.

The outreach was organised by the Uba Sani Foundation.

The governor, who turned 55 on Wednesday, celebrated the milestone by reaching out to vulnerable groups, including children in orphanage homes and patients in public hospitals.

The organisers of the outreach, Uba Sani Foundation visited seven orphanages and eight major health facilities to commemorate the occasion.

During the visits, the executive director of the foundation, Mallam Ibrahim Dan-Halilu, presented food items worth millions of naira to the orphanages.

The items included “50kg bags of rice, spaghetti, cooking oil, seasoning cubes, pomade, and soap,” as well as sanitary pads and blankets to protect the children from the harmattan cold.

Orphanage homes that benefitted from the gesture included Umm Aytam Orphanage and Women Home in Unguwan Dosa, Al-Ihsan Orphanage in Nassarawa, Adonai Children and Widows Home in Kakuri, and Naphtali Orphanage in Gonin Gora, among others.

The foundation also extended support to patients at health facilities such as Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, Yusuf Dantsoho General Hospital in Tudun Wada, Gwamna Awan General Hospital in Makera-Kakuri, General Hospital Kawo, and Hajiya Gambo Sawaba General Hospital in Kofar Gayan, Zaria.

Cash donations were given to more than 200 patients to help them purchase prescribed drugs and pay for laboratory tests.

Explaining the motivation behind the outreach, Dan-Halilu said “the purpose of the visits to the two special places was to use the occasion of the Governor’s birthday to remember the less privileged in our midst and reach out to assist them so that they can enter the New Year in high spirit.”

The beneficiaries of the donations expressed gratitude, offering prayers for the governor’s long life, good health and continued service to the less privileged.

Founded in 2018, the Uba Sani Foundation focuses on health, education and empowerment.