As part of efforts to ensure a better life for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in the North East, the TY Danjuma Foundation and the All Children Charity International Foundation, ACCIF have trained 55 IDPs in welding, tailoring and shoe-making.
Speaking at the graduation and handover of equipment ceremony, the finance and admin manager, TY Danjuma Foundation, Shuaib Adeadebayo, who represented the CEO said offering support to the IDPs was part of the mandate of the foundation and that the foundation will continue to do more to alleviate the plight of the IDPs.
Items handed over to the graduating students includes: tailoring (20 leg sewing machines, 20 tables for cutting, 20 stool, 20 charcoal pressing iron, 20 electric pressing iron, 20 scissors and other set up material.)
Others are: shoe-making (25 hand sewing machine, 25 filling machine, 25 bench, 25 filling machine stand, 25 tables, 25 generators, scissors and other shoe-making essentials.
For the welding, (three diesel generators, 10 sun glass, 10 welder filing machine, 10 hand tunge (electric holder), 10 iron vise, four welder machine, 10 (GOFAL 1kg) hammers, three cartons of electrode and other essentials.