Leadership (Abuja)
Sani Muh'd Sani
4 November 2009
Bauchi — A Bauchi based Non Governmental Organisation (CYDI) spends N500, 000 monthly in feeding the physically challenged people who undergo skill acquisition programme in its centre.
This was disclosed by the Initiator of CYDI, Hajia Abioduu Hauwa Isa Yuguda who is also the wife of the Bauchi State Governor while briefing journalists on the activities of the organisation in her office yesterday.
Hajia Yuguda said the disabled who undergo training which varies from sewing, carpentry, making of beads and Adire cloth, shoe making, welding, poultry and others, are being fed daily free of charge by CYDI for the last 2 years.
"This is part of our effort in giving the physically challenged people sense of belonging in the society. Apart from the feeding, we enroll them free of charge and also take care of their transportation. We have school buses that go to house to house every morning to convey them to the centre and also take them back home after closing". She said
According to her, CYDI graduated and empowered over 300 disabled this year and some of them are employed in the centre to earn a living noting that 200 of them are undergoing training now and would soon graduate.
She disclosed that the organisation has embarked on community based empowerment to enable those in the rural areas benefit from the gesture.
"We are doing community based rehabilitation. We have gone to about five local governments in the state so far and we are determined to move round all the 20 LGs in the state so that those who do not have access to the city can also be empowered in their rural communities". She added
She expressed her determination to introduce new skills in the centre to enable them have knowledge of other skill acquisition trainings.
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