Total E&P Donates $500,000 to IDPs in North-east

Ernest Chinwo

The Nigeria National petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/Total E&P Nigeria Joint venture, has donated five hundred thousand US dollars to the Nigerian Red Cross for rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in North-east Nigeria.

A statement issued yesterday by the Deputy General Manager, Media and Public Affairs of Total E&P, Mr. Charles Organ, said the intervention plan was launched on December 1, 2015 in Gombe State, one of the areas affected by the insurgency.

According to the statement, the Managing Director/ Chief Executive of Total E&P, Nicolas Terraz, said, “This initiative which is part our social responsibility is in support of efforts to improve conditions in the camps and help the affected persons return to their livelihood.

Terraz, who was represented by the Executive General Manager (Corporate Social Responsibility & Medical Services), Mr. Vincent Nnadi, said NNPC/Total E&P Nigeria Joint Venture “is deploying some resources to assist in this direction and has chosen the Nigerian Red Cross Society as our partner in implementing this initiative.”

According

to him, “The initiative is a 12-month intervention programme designed to achieve: Short term relief through the distribution of food and non-food items to the very vulnerable groups of female-head households, widows, orphans, the infirm and the aged; Support livelihood activities of the ablebodied to accelerate their economic recovery and self-reliance; and boost psychosocial support activities like provision of safe playing and learning spaces for the children and restoration of family links for families torn apart, among others.

He also said the initiative would broaden the scope and reach of community health activities like immunization, malaria prevention and treatment of ailments; and also provide safe and adequate water supply, environmental sanitation and personal hygiene promotion.

Representatives of NNPCNAPIMS, the Gombe State Government and the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE), witnessed the presentation

The Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, who received a delegation of the company at his palace in Gombe the state capital, commended Totals, initiative in supporting efforts to rehabilitate the IDPs.