Frontline gender based non-governmental organization in the Niger Delta, Kebetkache Women Resources and Development Center has reached out to flood internally displaced persons in Rivers State.
On Friday October 28, heeding cries for help from good spirited individuals and organizations to step in and help ameliorate the sufferings of the 2022 flood victims, the NGO set out with a team of medical personnel, media and staff to visit some of the IDP camps.
The team visited Abarikpo Camp and the Akoh Center both in Ahoada axis where food items, toiletries including sanitary pads and baby diapers, soap, toothpaste, solar lamps, blankets, rice cartons of indomie noodles, cartons of biscuit, sachets of salt and pure water, and sweaters.
Handing over the donations at the centers, executive director of Kebetkache empathized with the victims and encouraged them.
She said the organization was there to register support for them and after receiving testimonies from some of them, she called on government to do the needful to reduce the harsh impact of the flood on the people.
She also urged other organizations, churches and individuals to help with donations as the damage to livelihood and shelter is monumental, bigger than the 2012 flood impact.
Emem lamented that women bear the higher impact of the flood but she advised them to be resilient. She also charged those in charge of the centers to open registers to help them keep proper track of who is there and what comes in.
At Abarikpo, she commended the community for accommodating their displaced brethren and urged them to live cordially.
Nursing mothers received special packs from the general items donated while the IDPs received check- ups and drugs from the medical team.
A scheduled visit to Abua Local Government Area was truncated at some point as a result of the poor state of the road which was ravaged by flood. A detour found the visitors at the Seven Day Adventist Philanthropic Orphanage which became a waiting point for Abua representatives led by Kukpe Foundation to come over and receive their package.
It turned out a blessing for the home which though surrounded by flood, was miraculously spared. Kebetkache donated food items and other relief materials to the home which had been in existence helping shelter, nurture and groom challenged and abandoned children.
A very delighted head of the center, Mr James thanked and prayed for Kebetkache.
