Gobir Organisation Foundation (GOF) has said it will carry out a sustained poverty alleviation programme by doling out as much as N1.5 million every day for the next three months to the less privileged.
GOF was established by a philanthropist, Wazirin Kasan Hausa and governorship aspirant for 2023 under the banner of Young Progressives Party (YPP).
Speaking on the empowerment programme, Hon Bolu George, general manager of GOF said its latest roll out of poverty alleviation programme billed to last three months has demonstrated in practical terms how sever suffering is in the land.
“In the last couple of days we opened this program which will last three months, we get not less than I, 500 registrants from all parts of Kwara state, each with different challenges created by the level of poverty in the land,” he said.
According to him, GOF is prepared to dole out as much as N1.5 million every day for the next three months.
Explaining further, George said interested members of the public are required to put down their names, phone numbers and addresses and the purposes for which the money is meant.
“We sit back, assess their request and call them via three different radio stations in the state.
“Our empowerment programme comes in form of loans given without interest but we are giving out this assistance free because we have discovered that people are really suffering,” he said.
