By Shuaibu Tatu
Birnin Kebbi, – An NGO set up by wife of Kebbi Governor, Aisha Bagudu, says it has offered skills training to more than 8000 youth and supported others through agriculture to earn decent living.
It has also provided medical and educational support to over 1000 Fulani communities across the state, the project coordinator of MALLPAI Foundation, Alhaji Nurudeen Nassarawa, has said.
Nassarawa said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birinin Kebbi on Thursday that the foundation is helping rural dwellers in the areas of health, education, and skills to be self reliant.
”MALLPAI foundation has provided free education and medical services to over 1000 Fulani settlement in the state.
“The foundation is driven towards adding value to the lives of the less privileged and making society a better place to coexist.
“It was founded in 2009 by the wife of Kebbi state Governor, Hajiya Aisha Bagudu to drive out illiteracy in communities, enrich the minds of the youth and help develop unskilled women,” Nassarawa said.
The project coordinator explained that young and unskilled youths were targeted in the foundation’s training programmes.
”The youths undergo training in tailoring, plumbing, salon, electrical, carpentry, cosmetology, satellite intallation, welding.
“And between 2015 to 2017, we have graduated more than 8000 people from our training centre.
”Aisha Bagudu foundation also extended the gesture to Islamiya and public schools, providing them equipment to make chalks and soap.
“In the area of agriculture, it has assisted youths in the state, particularly students in public schools and Almajiri with farm inputs, including hectares of land,” he said.
According to him, other interventions undertaken by the foundation include distribution of mosquito nets, food items and other household materials, tricycles, crutches and visual aids to people with disabilities.
” In 2017 the foundation enrolled more than 1000 Almajiri male and female students into schools, we bought NECO and WAEC forms for them and many of them have passed with with good results .
“They are now in universities, Colleges of Education under the foundation’s scholarship.
“We also organise free adult and mass illiteracy classes to add value to the lives of the less privileged.”
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