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WFP Resumes School Feeding in Tajikistan Amidst COVID-19 Crisis Format Children in Tojikobod District having their WFP school meal. © WFP/Nasrullo Ramazonov World Food Programme resumes school feeding programme in almost 40 percent of the Central Asian country’s schools. In April, schools in Tajikistan were suspended and children sent to early summer break due to increasing COVID-19 cases in the country. However, WFP continued its support to schoolchildren from the most vulnerable families. ...

Olawale Jokotoye Abeokuta, Jan. 30, 2021 The Federal Government on Saturday inaugurated its N20,000 cash grant each for 3,500 rural women drawn from the 20 local government areas (LGAs) of Ogun. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Faruq, performed the ceremony at the Obas Complex in Abeokuta. Faruq, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Bashir Alkali, said the grant was designed “to give a lifting hand to some of th...

[FILES] Hajiya Umar FaroukThe Federal Government on Sunday began the disbursement of grants to 2,800 rural women in Enugu State under the Grant for Rural Women Project. Hajia Sadiya Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, said that the project was part of Federal Government`s National Social Investment Programme (NSIP). x Farouk, who was represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Bashi...

Published date: 31 January 2021 08:48 UTC | Last update: 1 month 3 weeks ago The issue of rotten food aid has taken centre stage in Yemen after the United Nations spoke out against the decision by the outgoing Trump administration to designate rebel Houthis as a "foreign terrorist organisation" (FTO). Houthi authorities have long accused the UN of sending rotten food to Yemen over the last five years, while the UNs World Food Programme (WFP) has denied...

At least, 125,000 rural women will benefit from the grant for rural women project and symbolic disbursement aimed at supporting each beneficiary with a sum of N20, 000, the federal government has disclosed.

Kayode Fasua in Abeokuta At least, 125,000 rural women will benefit from the grant for rural women project and symbolic disbursement aimed at supporting each beneficiary with a sum of N20, 000, the federal government has disclosed. The apex government, also, pledged that it would sustain its conditional cash transfer programme through which it had been supporting at least one million indigent people with N5,000 each monthly. The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Mrs. Sadiya Farouk disclosed th...

TODAY January 31, 2021 The Federal Government on Saturday inaugurated its N20,000 cash grant each for 3,500 rural women drawn from the 20 local government areas (LGAs) of Ogun. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Faruq, performed the ceremony at the Obas Complex in Abeokuta. Faruq, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Bashir Alkali, said the grant was designed “to give a lifting hand to some of the poorest and mo...

Vanguard News Sadiya disburses N160m to 8,000 Lagos rural women On Kindly Share This Story: Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Faruk, disbursed, at the weekend, N160million to 8, 000 rural women of Lagos State. The Lagos edition is part of the Nationwide Grant for Rural Women Project. Grant for Rural Women Project was introduced in 2020 to sustain the social inclusion agenda of President Buhari’s Administration. Sadiya said the programm...

WFP Tajikistan Country Brief, December 2020 Format 993,049 mt of food assistance distributed In December 2020 US$ 131,377 cash-based transfers made in December 2020 US$ 2.04 m six months (February – July 2021) net funding requirements Operational Updates • In December, WFP held a ceremony to hand over to the Government of Tajikistan over 180 tons of vegetable oil purchased with funds from the Russian Federation. This was the first batch of a total of 300 tons of vegetable oil to cover the n...

FG begins disbursement of N20,000 to Abuja women On By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The federal government has begun the disbursement of N20,000 to rural women in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, flagged off the disbursement under the Grant for Rural Women Project, Thursday, in Abuja. Rural women in the six area councils of the FCT, are to benefit from the disbursement under the government’s Na...