The Centre for Community Development and Research Network (CCDRN) has commenced the distribution of Non Food item (NFI) to targeted families across Gujba and Gulani LGA’s under the WFP’s Income Generating Activities to boost self-reliance, promote economic recovery and foster community development in conflict affected communities.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) had performed the official handing over ceremony in conjunction with CCDRN and other cooperating partners on the 3rd of March 2020, in Damaturu the Yobe state capital.
The start-up kits/Non Food Items being distributed includes; tailoring machine, cooking utensils, oil extraction machine, tomatoes processing machine, grain processing machine, deep freezer, stabilizer for ice-block machine, generators among others.
The NFI’s were taken to various distribution points in both LGA’s for distribution to the beneficiaries who had gone through several training to prepare them for proper utilization of the kits in a bid to build resilience, support sustainable livelihood and encourage sustainable income generation.
A beneficiary wheeling home a tailoring kit received from CCDRN thanks to WFP
Basically, this will revive stability and harmony of these targeted individual, who initially were affected by insurgency and lost their means of livelihood in the process.
One of the beneficiaries, Hajara Maina, a mother of ten, trained in tomatoes processing, after receiving her NFI’s disclosed how the intervention has changed her life positively and also provided a means of livelihood for her.
“WFP’s intervention in partnership with CCDRN has positively changed my mental, physical, and psychological wellbeing. Prior to WFP intervention, I was lost, i couldn’t find meanings to existence, because my family’s only means of survival was destroyed, but now I have recovered and very ready to live again,” Hajara said, adding that “this NFI’s will provide me and my family a sustainable means of livelihood,”
