Daily Trust foundation spends N100m on IDPs

The Daily Trust Foundation for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has spent over N100 million on welfare of victims of insurgency in the North-east. A report indicates that the foundation generated a total of N178.7 million out of which N87.2 million was used to partner NonGovernmental Organisations (NGOs) for direct intervention in the affected states.

A breakdown of expenditure by the foundation also shows that N2.3 million was spent on monitors and evaluators, operational payments cost N2.1 million and bank charges N22,694.95. The total disbursement so far is N100,325,154.95.

It was gathered that aside Borno State, which has redeemed its pledge of N10 million, five states in the North-east including Adamawa, Yobe, Taraba, Gombe and Bauchi, are yet to fulfil their pledges of N10 million each made during the foundation’s fund raiser.

The foundation has engaged NGOs in Adamawa, Borno, Gombe, Yobe and Abuja to cater for needs of IDPs including food, education, medicines, skills acquisition trainings and borehole projects.

The organisations that took part in the intervention project include Likemind (N6.2m), Shehu Usman Abubakar Foundation (N5.6m), Green Environment Support (N11.2m), FOMWAN Yobe (N11.2m), FOMWAN Adamawa (N11.2m), Future Prowess (N11.2m), Centre for Women and Adolescent Empowerment (N11.2m), Centre for Integrated Development and Research (N6.2m), 1-Ummah (N6.2m), Girl Child Concerns (N10m, N5m yet to be disbursed), Ummah Support Initiative (N1m), Women in Da’awah (N1m) and Gabasawa Women and Children Initiative (N8m).

“Aside the IDPs intervention project, Media Trust Limited already has an existing corporate social responsibility scheme in scholarship to female medical students from 200-level, support to orphanages and prisons. We also provide boreholes in areas of acute water needs in partnership with an NGO,” the report said.