The Orphans’ Care Committee of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Adamawa State chapter, has distributed Ramadan gifts, including foodstuffs and clothes, to 700 households housing over 3,000 orphans in Yola North, Yola South, and part of Girei local government areas.
The National Chairman of the organisation in Nigeria, Sheikh Imam Abdullahi Bala Lau, while unveiling the distribution of the items at the Federal College of Education, Yola, called on government at all levels to assist Orphans’ Care Committee financially or materially.
He also urged members of the National and State Assemblies to initiate programmes that would directly benefit orphans, saying this would make them productive and contribute to the country’s economic development.
The National Chairman of JIBWIS charged parents and guardians of Orphans to ensure that the children attend school and receive proper child-rearing so they can be useful in society.
Sheikh Bala Lau said the organisation will introduce a skills-acquisition programme to train parents and guardians of Orphans in various skills, enabling them to fend for their children under their care rather than depend on alms and donations from individuals and organisations.
Earlier, the Adamawa State Chairman of the Orphans’ Care Committee, Doctor Bashir Imam Aliyu, said the aim of the programme is to enable orphans who are among the vulnerable in society to feel a sense of belonging and not be marginalized.
He said more than seventeen million naira was received from various individuals, groups, and organisations this year and was expended on the purchase of foodstuffs and clothes, and the same was distributed to orphans captured across the twenty-one local government areas in the state.
The committee chairman then thanked those who contributed to the exercise’s success and prayed to Allah to reward them abundantly.
Doctor Aliyu revealed that the committee plans to host a national conference on orphans, aimed at educating the public on the intellectual and financial management of orphans.
Sheikh Bala Lau then hosted one hundred and fifty orphans and their parents to a breaking of fast (Iftar), the third of the series, where he re-emphasized the need for wealthy individuals and organisations to assist the less privileged in society, particularly orphans.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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