In its efforts to provide succour to vulnerable people bedeviled by insurgency, the Living Faith Church Worldwide has donated food and other items worth N7.4m to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across nine communities in Yobe state.
Flagging-off the distribution in Fune town of Fune local government area of the state on Saturday, the Resident Pastor of the Church in Damaturu, Shedrack Egene, said “the aim was to assist and meet the needs of fellow brothers who became IDPs as result of the attacks by the insurgents.”
“The items were received from our headquarters, so the church is playing its role in assisting and praying with the vulnerable people.
“Yobe happens to be one of the beneficiaries and the humanitarian aid is ongoing across the country simultaneously” he said.
Earlier in his remarks, Pastor Young Clement the Chairman Humanitarian aid of the church in Yobe, said the intervention came timely looking at how the vulnerable people are living in hard condition as result of the Boko Haram attacks which left them at the mercy of God.
“The church is extending a hand of fellowship to aid the IDPs with food items worth N7.4m while the non food items cannot be quantified” he said.
Mohammed Aguna and Iya Yuguda, beneficiaries who fled from Bama in Borno state to Fune in Yobe state thanked the church for the gesture saying despite the difference in faith they were considered, that these gladden their hearts.
The distribution was closely supervised by the church leaders and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) in the state.
