COVID-19: CSOs distribute food items to vulnerable groups in Kano

A xoalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has distributed food items to vulnerable groups in Kano state to reduce the hardship being faced by the less privileged due to COVID-19 lockdown.

Coordinator of the group, Alhaji Abubakar Widi-Jalo, disclosed in an interview with newsmen in Monday in Kano.

“We are thinking of including cooked food to our chain of distribution based on what we realised while doing the raw food distribution. People are really suffering.

“We raised about N13 million in two weeks and donated to about 7,000 families, thus feeding about 5, 000 households and we are still counting,” he said.

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Jalo commended philanthropists and organisations like the Pakistani community in Kano, who had supported the group in its cause.

“In the two weeks we started distribution, we were able to assist 1,500 households and 7,000 families so far in Kano, and we are still distributing because people are still donating,” Jalo said.

He said that similar distribution had also began in Jigawa, Sokoto and Zamfara states to cushion the effect of the lockdown.