A blind Corps Member, Gambo Dahiru serving in Katsina State has produced 1000 NYSC customized Face Masks and donated to members of the public.
Dahiru, who is from the 2019 Batch B Stream 2 Gambo Dahiru serving with Companion FM Radio in Katsina said, the gesture was part of his Community Development Service (CDS) to fight the spread of the novel COVID-19 pandemic in Katsina State.
The Youth Corps member with disability, who does not see his situation as a hindrance, said that fifty percent of the masks should be distributed to persons living with disabilities in the immediate society, forty percent to his fellow Corps members and ten percent to NYSC Staff to enable them carry out their supervision duties effectively without any hindrance in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
NYSC State Coordinator in Katsina State, Alh Ahidjo Yahaya while commissioning the project on Tuesday, described the Corps member as exemplary, saying he had weathered the storm associated with personally challenged persons to embark on a rare project that even able bodied Corps members cannot do.
The Coordinator who was represented by the Assistant Director, CDS, Alh Salimon Ayodeji remarked that NYSC produces Corps members who are useful to the society irrespective of the way they were created by God.
Ayodeji said that because of Corps Members like Gambo, the Scheme has become problem solving organization for the country, saying that it was the reason the NYSC was still existence after 47 years.
In his brief remarks, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Katsina State on Disabled Matter, Alh Yau Rufa Zakka commended the Corps member for the initiative.
He assured that the noble project would get to the ears of the Governor.
The Project, according to Gambo was single handedly sponsored by a Non Governmental Organization, “Quality Life for Persons with Special Need Foundation”.
