The Victims Support Fund (VSF) Task Force on COVID-19; will distribute
food items and medial consumables to Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs) and vulnerable in Northeast.
The IDPs were sacked to take refuge in camps; during the decade Boko
Haram insurgency in Borno, Adamawa, Taraba and Yobe states.
Head of VSF task force on COVID-19, Mrs. Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji
Tuesday in Maiduguri, disclosed that critical stakeholders and
partners in insurgency affected states, be provided with medical
consumables to prevent coronavirus into IDP camps.
“We’ll distribute a unit each of 10 kg bags of rice, beans, maize,
four litres of cooking oil and two kg of salt to the IDPs in camps and
host communities,” she said.
She added that the task force has also developed sensitization
packages that are being deployed to IDP camps and host communities of
Maiduguri, Dalori, Dikwa, Pulka, Monguno and Gwoza, a border community
with Cameroon.
According to her, the sensitization campaigns were to inform and
educate the IDPs on the need to observe hygiene and sanitation
guidelines to prevent further spread of the deadly virus.
She said VSF is committed to sustaining efforts in the global fight
against the devastating COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ll continue to work to provide succor to victims of insurgency and
armed conflict in Nigeria especially in the areas of livelihood and
recovery,” she said.
According to her; intervention support, included education and
protection, infrastructural development as well as research and peace
building.
