Nigeria: Presbyterian Church Institutes Fund On Chibok Girls

26 August 2014

The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has announced that in keeping with the Church's spirit of Christian charity and in support of President Goodluck Jonathan's initiative in setting up a special Fund in aid of victims of Boko Haram insurgency and other social upheavals, the Church has set up a Fund toward the rehabilitation of the Chibok girls when they are eventually rescued.

In a communiqué issued at the end of its biennial General Assembly meeting held in Calabar, Cross River State, the Church felt worried by the experiences the girls were passing through and the psychological trauma that could befall them when freed. The Fund would serve as the Church's contribution toward rehabilitating the girls and making them to fulfill their divine destinies.

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