Foundation donates relief materials to flood victims in Bayelsa communities
Over 800 households in Bayelsa State have benefited from relief materials donated by a non-governmental organisation, Learning And Life Aid (LALA) Foundation in partnership with Heritage Bank. The items such as mosquito nets, hoes, cutlasses, rain boots , carton of noodles and bags of rice were presented to some residents of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area […]
Over 800 households in Bayelsa State have benefited from relief materials donated by a non-governmental organisation, Learning And Life Aid (LALA) Foundation in partnership with Heritage Bank.
The items such as mosquito nets, hoes, cutlasses, rain boots , carton of noodles and bags of rice were presented to some residents of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area affected by the recent flooding of the area.
The gesture was also extended to Gbaranama and Oyobu communities.
Speaking during the presentation of the items, the President of the Foundation, Lilian Alaere Ebifegha, called for a permanent solution to prevent the perennial flooding in the Niger Delta region.
Speaking at Abuwari Community in the Opokuma clan, one of the centres for the distribution of the relief materials, she said that the items were targeted at 10 communities to assuage the hardship occasion with the 2020 flooding in the state .
She said the vision of the foundation was to help individuals attain at least a minimal state of well-being, adding that their focus was on education and life aid to the people in rural areas.
Ebifegha said the palliatives were only to cushion the effect of the devastating flood on the people.
She called on well-meaning Nigerians, especially indigenes of the state to support people who lost their means of livelihood and property to the flood.
Also speaking, a founding member of the NGO, Mr Tonbara Egbe, appealed to the state government to find a lasting solution to the yearly flood that ravages communities by dredging River Nun.
A beneficiary, Mr Frank Lucky, thanked the Foundation and Heritage Bank for their kind gesture.