Boko Haram victims:Red Cross launches N480m emergency fund

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(Nigeria) The International Red Cross, said it had launched a N480 million emergency fund to support intervention programmes for victims of insurgency in the North East of Nigeria.
The Secretary-General of the Nigeria Red Cross Society, Mr Bello Diram, said this in a news conference in Abuja on Friday.
Diram said the fund was meant to address the serious humanitarian challenges created as a result of the insurgency in parts of the north east.
``The Nigeria Red Cross has been fully involved in the management of internally displaced people from the communities to camps set up by the government. The Nigeria Red Cross will continue to address the identified needs of the affected population in the North East which includes food and non food items, shelter, health water, and sanitation, psychosocial support, livelihood support and restoring family link.
``The overall objective of the emergency appeal is to assist 150,000 beneficiaries 50,000 people in each of the three targeted states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe.’’
He said that nearly 12,500 people per local government area in each state would benefit from community-based emergency health, water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, relief, psycho-social and livelihood support.
The secretary-general said the Nigeria Red Cross stood out as the only organisation that has unfettered access to almost everywhere in the north east.
Diram said the organisation had distributed relief materials and food items to victims of insurgency in Maiduguri.
According to him, the society in collaboration with its partners distributed 960 metric tons of items to 51,000 people in Miaduguri.
He said the organisation would, however, reach more people and communities if the resources were made available.
Diram appealed all Nigerians, international organisations within and outside Nigeria and the entire international community.
The insurgents have created serious humanitarian crisis in the region by the surge in attacks on communities.

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