The Executive Director of The Qualitative Magazine (disability advocacy magazine) Chris Agbo on behalf of Princess Eunice Ukwuani Foundation in collaboration with Lotus Initiative for the Blind on Saturday and Sunday distributed food items to 50 women with disabilities in Abuja.
The Qualitative magazine team led by Comrade Chris Agbo embarked on distribution of relief materials tour to Bwari Area council to Kuje Area Council and ended it at Abuja Municipal Area Council.
Different clusters of disability such as persons with physical disabilities, deaf, blind, persons with albinism and persons with intellectual disabilities were considered during the distribution.
Each of them got one cartoon of noodles and one 5kg bag of rice.
Chris Agbo during a press time said that Princess Eunice Ukwuani Foundation in collaboration with Lotus Initiative for the blind contacted The Qualitative Magazine to help distribute palliatives to women and girls with disabilities, as a disability focused magazine, it is also our duty to mobilize relief and other means of livelihood for persons with disabilities. Knowing the effect of COVID-19 on persons with disabilities especially women and girls with disabilities, we took up the task of providing this essential service. The foundation has been donating PPE for materials, face masks and hand sanitizers to hospitals in Nigeria, USA and some countries in Africa to help curb the spread of COVID-19, but now, they are kicking off the provision of palliatives for women and girls with disabilities to help them survive this trying time, for the fact that, women with disabilities suffer more challenges than the male counterpart. It is imperative that they are reached at a time like this. Speaking further, he said that it is an ongoing exercise and he called on other good spirited Nigerians home and abroad to support this foundation to reach out to more women and girls with disabilities across the country. There are very many of women with disabilities who are in the rural areas.
Ruth Ali, a blind from Bwari in FCT expressed her joy on the gesture, prayed for God to bless the foundation and urge the public to support the initiative for the NGO to go forward and reach people in the remotest part of the country.
Betty Mube, Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) FCT chapter, women leader, and a physically challenged speaking on behalf of all women with disabilities thanked the foundation for remembering women with disabilities at this time of COVID-19 is ravaging the world and she made a passionate appeal to Nigerians at home and in diaspora to donate to the foundation because they are committed to uplift the lives of women with disabilities.
Princess Eunice Ukwuani Foundation is founded by USA based Nigerian, Princess Eunice Ukwuani. It is a global foundation that caters for the needs of the girl-child and women with disabilities in Africa and around the world, It is basically founded to cater for education needs of the girl-child that can’t afford to go to school and also financial needs of vulnerable children that is affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Foundation also donates PPE materials, face masks and hand sanitizers to hospitals in Nigeria, Africa, USA and across the world in order to help fight the war against Coronavirus
They can be reached for donations and support at: No. 5, East 93rd Street Brooklyn, New York, 11212, USA and Block 3, Road 3, Yayale Ahmed Estate, Apo, FCT, Abuja. Contact phone: +2348112678021, +2347032869125. EMAIL:princesseunicefoundation@gmail.com
Or Lotus Initiative for the Blind(LIB) (www.lotusinitiativefortheblind.org )
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