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Ramadan:
NAWOJ FCT Donates Food to Garki Mosque
The Nigeria Association
of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), FCT chapter yesterday donated food
items to the Muslim community in Garki village, Abuja to aid
their feeding during the Ramadan.
Presenting the items to
them the chairperson of NAWOJ FCT, Hajiya Aishatu Ali-Kadala
said they decided to come to Garki village because it is a
village with a lot of less privilege people.
According to her, the
residents who are mostly indigenes are in dire need of food and
shelter, a situation that needs to be attended to by the Abuja
Municipal Area Council (AMAC) as well as the people’s
representatives at different levels of governance.
The association which is
a non-profit making, she said, was at the Mosque to contribute
its quota by helping out with the food supply for the Muslim
faithful to break their fast with.
“Though we do not have
much to give to the community as our heart desires we give this
as a token to help them feed in the spirit of the Ramadan and to
touch the lives of people around us,” she stated.
Deputy Chief Imam of the
Garki Hausa Mosque 2, Alhaji Haruna Bako who received the
chairperson and members of the association on behalf of the
Chief Imam said the community was very grateful to the
organisation for the gesture.
He said the village was
one of the most impoverished in the FCT and they were honoured
they were chosen as beneficiaries, even as he enjoined the
organisation to sustain the assistance.
Speaking on behalf of
indigenes and residents of the village, Malam Auwal Mohammed
said the village has been neglected so long that NAWOJ was the
first to come and see what they were passing through.
He called on the
government to assist the village with social amenities
especially shelter and also provide jobs for the indigenes as
many of them do not have jobs or are low income earners.
Another resident,
Murtala Sani, a civil servant with the Ministry of Youth
Development, commended the organisation for coming to Garki to
break the Ramadan fast with them in the spirit of the season and
charged other associations to emulate NAWOJ.
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