by Chris Agbo
Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) on Thursday in Nyanya, Abuja organized COVID-19 sensitization programme and food items distribution to over a hundred vulnerable persons which includes women, youths and persons with disabilities.
The event was organized to reach out to these vulnerable persons in order to cushion the effect of hardship occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic and also sensitize them on the realities of COVID-19 and the preventive measures they must adopt as part of their lives to avoid contracting the virus.
The exercise according to the conveners would be taken to other parts of Federal Capital Territory.
Each of the participants went home with a bag filled with food items such as rice, garri, beansm sachets of noddles and sachets of tomatoes paste including a facemask.
The mobilizer of the persons with disabilities at the event, Hon. Danderson Hart while speaking to The Qualitative Magazine thanked the organizers for including persons with disabilities in their programme. He said that this gesture means a lot to persons with disabilities because they are more affected economically by the pandemic. He then call on more well meaning Nigerians to reach out to the vulnerable persons especially persons with disabilities.
Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) is a non-governmental organization with the mandate to provide a platform for building and strengthening the processes of peace and social change in Nigeria and Africa at large. It was established in 2010 by John Cardinal Onaiyekan to advocate for religious and ethnic tolerance in order to bui;d peace and harmony among us.
SOME PICTURES OF THE EVENT:
