Hardship: Bicag Charity Foundation Empowers Women With Cash Grant To Expand Their Businesses, Gives Food Packages Worth Thousands Of Naira To Vulnerable People In Ibadan

In an attempt to cushion the economic hardship, hunger and heightened rise of prices of foodstuff in Nigeria, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Bicag Charity Foundation, with office in Sagamu Local Government area of Ogun State, has extended it’s kind gesture to Oyo State, by distributing food items worth thousands of naira per packages to the less privileged living at Oke Bola, Ido Local Government, Ibadan.
Welcoming the audience to the event, the NGO Planning Officer, Comr. Adeyinka Ashaye, noted that the beneficiaries of the food outreach were selected by the landlord association of the community from zones and districts that made up Oke Bola community, noting the food outreach event which was held today Sunday, 24th March 2024, comprises of rice, beans, semovita, spaghetti, sugar, salt, cassava flakes and others were packaged and distributed to the beneficiaries.
Speaking at the event, the Director of the NGO, Asiwaju Abidemi Bidex, who spoke on behalf of the CEO/Founder of the NGO, Mrs. Abidemi Emmanuel, said the foundation drives on the basis of fulfilling the sustainable development goals which is zero hunger, noting the food outreach will help the downtrodden in the community.
“This is an individual capacity to help these less privileged living in Ibadan. Our principal, Mrs. Emmanuel, humanitarian gesture to provide nutritious food items to the less privileged within Ibadan metropolis had been on set for some months after her attention was called on it for the outreach. She therefore uses the medium to urged the general public to be calm and manage themselves at this moment of economic hard time, adding that the crises will soon be a things of the past.
“Bicag Charity Foundation is a new NGO that started in January 2024, and we have been able to assist within the short period of time. We started with helping the widows and old ages in Sagamu community in Ogun State with food outreach and we helped so many people there.”
“We are going to another community to feed the Muslim faithfuls for Iftar “breaking the fast” in the ongoing Ramadan festive, we will also did the same thing. In April, we are going to several churches in Sagamu again to share food items and cash gifts to several vulnerable people in celebrating the Easter festival with the Christians.
“Today, we are at Oke Bola community, Ibadan, in Ido Local Government to extend our love to the poor people here. The food outreach given to the beneficiaries was born out of the Founder’s concerns for the harrowing experience of hardship and the need to cushion the effect of the the multifaceted challenges of hunger and malnutrition. It is a continuous exercise as we will continue to share more food stuffs to the vulnerable people, as well as engaging in many other related projects that will adds value to humanity growth and the society at large”, Bidex concluded.
Also, some cash grant was also gifted to Mrs. Olabisi Onabanjo as a start-up capital for her business. The cash grant beneficiary was said to have pass through some challenges in Ibadan over her business after a fire outbreak burnt down her shops, as this caught the attention of the CEO to comes to her aid by gifting her a cash grant of ₦50,000 as part of relief support for her business.
While appreciating the kind gesture, Pastor (Mrs.) Funmilola commended Mrs. Emmanuel and the Bicag Charity Foundation team, for coming out en masse as a team to reach out to the community to solve their hard time issues and give them palliatives of food stuffs and others; which she said would brighten their lives.
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Speaking on behalf of all the beneficiaries, Mr. Sokoya Abdul-wasiu appreciates the NGO for remembering them at this critical time, as he expresses joy and excitement over the food items and cash given to all the beneficiaries, adding that the humanitarian gesture would be a big relief to each and everyone’s family.