A non-
governmental
organisation,
Chagro Care Trust, and TY
Danjuma
Foundation have
donated relief
materials to the
internally
displaced
persons.

The relief materials were donated to displaced
persons from Goza in Borno being camped in
Mansutu village of Ardo Kola Local Government Area
of Taraba.
The Programme Officer of Chagro care Trust, Miss
Rijimra Ande, distributed the items directly to the
IDPs.

Ande said the IDPs had stayed in the rural
community for three years before they were
discovered by the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugee (UNHCR).
She said the UN agency drew the organisation’s
attention to the camp which it responded
immediately with a need assessment visit to the rural
community.

The programme officer called on the government,
organisations and well meaning individuals to
identify with the plight of the IDPs to make life more
meaningful for them.
“To be honest, when we came for need assessment,
we were tempted not to come back due to complete
lack of access road to the community.
“But the condition we saw you compelled us to find a
way of bringing the intervention to you,’’ she said.
Ande noted that the organisation would soon return
to the community for medical intervention for the
IDPs.

On her part, Miss Janet Ajala, the Taraba Coordinator
of TY Danjuma Foundation, decried the condition of
IDPs and lack of access road to camps.
She, however, thanked Chagro Care Trust for taking
the pains to ensure that intervention reached out to
the people that were not discovered by any
emergency agency for over three years of their stay.
Ajala told the IDPs that the Chairman of the
foundation, retired Gen. Theophilous Danjuma,
wanted them to stay at peace with their host
community and support government efforts at
ending insurgency in the country.
Responding on behalf of the IDPs, Mr Sunday
Andraus, thanked the organisations for coming to
their aide at their time of need.
Andraus said they had been staying at the camp for a
long time but only the local branch of the Baptist
Church that had assisted them with some food items.
He thanked the host community for providing them
with portions of land to carry out farming activities to
feed their families over the period.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that items
donated include 12 bags of rice, 58 pieces of
mosquito nets, 48 jerry cans, 48 cooking pots,
sanitary pads, bathing soap, among others.