The
long waiting of the people of Dafara and Kabusa Village in the suburb of Abuja
the Federal Capital Territory for assistance to uplift their lives will soon be
a thing of the past. This is as a result of the determination of Dr Iluyomade’s
Arise Women Foundation strong will and doggedness in making sure all the
promises made to the village people in the adopt-a-village scheme embarked upon
by the platform are all met.
Arise Abuja programme which will witness thousands of individual beneficiaries
apart communities which includes two different villages Dafara and Kabusa will
hold between November 29, and December 1, this year, with different empowerment
activities lined up.
The
special event officially starts with the commissioning of the Arise Skills
Acquisition and Empowerment Academy designed to trained over one hundred thousands
of adopted Dafara and Kabusa indigents, particularly women.
The Arise academy is part of the fulfillment of the Dr Iluyomade’s faith-based
Non-Governmental Organization and commitment to accelerating nation building
through empowerment of women in the society, it will be followed by Gala Night
and Dinner at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja where every participant will be
expected to wear the Arise Ankara.
The Following day which is 30th, November will see the Arise team led by Dr
Iluyomade move to Kabusa Village to begin different community project
commissioning which includes, Boreholes, Renovation of school buildings,
Presentation of Back to school initiative with different items as give-aways,
including bags, shoes and many more. Villagers of Kabusa will also enjoy free
massive medical outreach from the Arise team of Doctors.
Also in a bid to go along with the self sufficient in food initiative of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the NGO will be officially launching its, Arise Women Farmers Foundation with the ultimate aim to empower women who are into farming to be more efficient. The three-day event rounds off on 1st, November with a special thanksgiving for the Arise Women Foundation.
Since the NGO adopted Dafara Village, Abuja, in its scheme over 800,000 inhabitants of the community including her neighbors has benefited from different charity initiative of the Foundation, which includes provision of free notebooks and textbooks, as well as tables and chairs to Dafara Primary school pupils.
Also, free school bags were given to Kpaduma Primary School pupils Dafara. Arise built and donated computerized library to Dafara Community Primary School, Constructed and donated boreholes, distributed thousands of bags of rice to Dafara, Kpaduma and Kobi Villages. 10-bed medical facility was also built at Dafara village. Three different IDP’s camp in the North were also presented with Shoes, Clothes, Bags of rice and many more.
