COVID-19: Foundation donates palliatives to women with disabilities in Abuja

The Survive Fistula Health Care Foundation (SFHF), a non-governmental organization, has donated food and other items to women living with disabilities in Abuja. The items donated include face masks and hand sanitisers. Speaking during the donation at the Kuje Primary Health Care Centre, Mrs Peters Ogunmayin, Executive Director of the foundation, said the donation was […]

The Survive Fistula Health Care Foundation (SFHF), a non-governmental organization, has donated food and other items to women living with disabilities in Abuja. The items donated include face masks and hand sanitisers.

Speaking during the donation at the Kuje Primary Health Care Centre, Mrs Peters Ogunmayin, Executive Director of the foundation, said the donation was done with support from CBM Australia to enable women with disabilities in Abuja to feed themselves and their families.

Peters said the donation was inspired by the challenges the beneficiaries were facing as the country and the rest of the world grapple with the biting effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The support came on a day the United Nations raised alarm that one billion persons living with disabilities across the globe face crises over COVID-19.

She said: “The programme is a response to COVID-19. We are supporting people with vision, hearing impairments and those living with physical disabilities within Kuje Area Council. We will extend it to Gwagwalada, and Kwali soon.

One of the beneficiaries and Chairperson, Deaf Women Association of Nigeria, Abuja chapter, Hellen Beyioku-Alase, thanked the foundation for the donation.

She called on other well-meaning groups, corporate organisations and individuals in the country to empathise and support vulnerable people around them.