Ilorin -. The Kwara Government has reaffirmed its determination to partner with relevant stakeholders to alleviate the sufferings of vulnerable children and physically challenged in the society.
Hajiya Ayinke Saka, the state’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, said this on Thursday in Ilorin when she received members of a Non Governmental Organisation, Passionate Heart Empowerment Foundation, who paid her a visit.
Saka said that the ministry was shouldered with the responsibility of catering for vulnerable children and physically challenged people in the society.
According to her, government alone cannot shoulder the responsibility, hence the need for stakeholders and relevant organisations to partner with it to improve the lives of the people.
She then sought the collaboration of the NGO to assist in attending to the needs of abandoned children at recreation centres.
The commissioner commended the group for taking the step to synergise with the ministry.
She noted that the Foundation could also collaborate with the ministry by sponsoring the education of the affected children from primary to tertiary institution and taking care of their medical bills.
The Initiator and Founder of the NGO, Hajiya Maryam Usman-Yasin, disclosed that the Foundation was established in 1981 with the mandate to assist vulnerable children and render social support services to improve their well-being.
Usman-Yasin said that her pet project was a charity organisation to complement government’s efforts toward alleviating the sufferings of the affected people and thereby reducing poverty level in the society.
She noted that free medical services would be given to the people, while food items and health services would be donated to orphanages.
On his part, Alhaji Issa Ore, the state’s Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Worker (NURTW), said that the Union collaborated with the Foundation to alleviate the sufferings of vulnerable people and physically challenged children in the society.
Ore added that the team would visit the Nigerian Prisons Service at Mandala orphanage, the children recreation centre and the remand homes to assist affected people. (NAN)