By Leonard Okachie
A humanitarian organisation, Machiani Foundation for the Needy and Community Development (MFNCD), has supported about 40 widows in Abia community, with cash and bundles of Ankara fabrics, to alleviate their plight.
Each of the widows received N5,000 in cash and a six-yard wrapper on Monday at Umunkaru-Alike community in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia.
The Co-ordinator, Mrs Peace Ezeka, who personally supervised the donation, said that the group was keen in ensuring that the items got to the right persons.
She said that it had always been the passion of the Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Mercy (Amarachi) Nwaubani, to support the widows amid the current economic challenges.
Ezeka said the foundation, with the motto: “Help the Needy,” was established in 2017, to improve the quality of life of the distressed and the under-privileged by providing essential resources, heath care services and others.
“We also help to restate those people that have mishap, such as all forms of natural disaster,” the MFNCD coordinator said.
Ezeka urged the widows to always oblige the foundation with information about those critically in need, saying that it would do as much it could to help them.
“No sick person should die just because he or she has no money to go to hospital; please alert us when you have such situation in your community,” she said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ezeka used the opportunity to sensitise the widows in the rural community for flood disaster mitigation and adaptation.
Ezeka, who distributed papers containing different places and communities ravaged by flood across the country, told them about the government preparedness to stop the impending disaster.
She urged them to observe flood safety net and care for their environments, to mitigate the impact of flood disaster.
Speaking on behalf of the widows, Mrs Okwuchi Nwaubani, the past chairperson of Umunkaru-AlIke Women Association, expressed gratitude to the group for the timely donation.
The elated widows who were mostly elderly, turned the venue to a prayer ground, as they sang and prayed profusely to God to bless the foundation.(NAN)
