NAPEP, NGO donate 100 goats to women
The National Poverty Alleviation
Programme (NAPEP) in Katsina State, in collaboration with an NGO,
Service to Humanity Foundation, has donated 100 goats to 50 women in
Bindawa Local Government Area of the state.
The goats were donated under the second
phase of NAPEP’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, which
covers seven local government areas in the state.
Speaking while launching the programme
on Tuesday in Bindawa, the wife of the state governor, Fatima Shema,
said the animals were given out to women, including widows, in addition
to cash given to them under the NAPEP CCT programme.
She noted that the cash being given to
the beneficiaries monthly is meant to assist them in educating their
children, especially the orphans.
She disclosed that, apart from the cash
and animals been given freely to the beneficiaries, economic trees
would also be given to them as part of efforts to improve their
socio-economic well being.
In his address, the Bindawa Local
Government Chairman, Abdu Umaru, commended NAPEP and the NGO for the
gesture, saying that the council had also given 2,000 exercise books to
pupils and 500 text books to teachers in the area to enhance learning
in schools.
Each of the 50 women in Bindawa got two goats and a cash donation of between N3,000 to N5,000.
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