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The Victims Support Fund (VSF)
has reiterated its commitment to providing various interventions to victims of
Boko Haram insurgency in the North East to alleviate their sufferings.
VSF Executive Director, Prof. Sunday Ochoche, made the
disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Ochoche said in continuation of the interventions of VSF in
affected communities over 20,000 women were currently benefiting in its
economic empowerment programme.
He said that the “Women Economic Empowerment Cash distribution
Project’’ aimed at supporting women who were economically active and have
skills that could be translated to income generation.
“So our agricultural programme continues; our women empowerment
programme continues; right now we have over 20,000 women in our programme.
“For education programme, we have about 200,000 children in our
education support programme, we also have about 4,500 teachers that have
benefited in our teacher retraining programme.’’
According to him, the educational sector is one of the areas
that suffered during the wake of insurgency in North-Eastern Nigeria thereby
leaving many children out of school in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
“Shortly also, we will be commencing our programme of support
for animal breeding; where we will buy animals and distribute to households for
breeding of goats.
“We are also in the process of building three new schools, new
barrack and police station in Gombe.
“We are in the process of rebuilding or completely renovating
the local government area secretariat as well as building three students
hostels and two blocks of classroom in Michika local government in Adamawa
State.
“So in the area of physical structures those are the things we
are in the process of doing at the moment.
“Also in May we commissioned over 16 facilities in Yobe State,
we built across 16 local government areas in the State a number of schools
among others.
VSF has been working since 2015 to administer support services
to victims of insurgency in North East Nigeria.
These has been achieved through the facilitation and restoration
of livelihood, Agro based intervention and introduction of foster care
programmes for orphaned among others. ピーク ファンドリア
