By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has pledged to provide periodic healthcare and non-healthcare support for vulnerable orphans identified in orphanage homes as well as vulnerable persons in Yobe State.
The State Coordinator of the WHO in the state, Doctor Nuhu Barau Ningi disclosed this while presenting nutritional food and non-food items to 257 orphans at YETIM Care Foundation in Damaturu the capital.
Doctor Barau explained that the gesture is part of the commemoration of the seventy fifth anniversary of the WHO in which they have been providing governments with support to free communities from all sorts of pandemic.
“You should not lose hope, we have seen your condition, therefore WHO as an organization we will periodically visit you and provide you with essentials needs” he said.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Coordinator of the Foundation, Muhammad Gambo who represented the board of directors, revealed the orphanage has 257 pupils in which the younger ones numbering 80 reside in the centre while the others with their guardians.
Gambo explains since the establishment of the Orphanage in 2006, it had depended solely on the Yobe State Government in terms of feedings, infrastructure, healthcare and teachers’ allowance until a few years back in which partners came in.
He therefore, urged groups and meaningful individuals to support the orphanage, noting that many of the orphans have graduated and have either been employed by the state government or been self-employed.
