[dropcap]G[/dropcap]rassroots Newspaper Publishers Network(GNPN) has donated relief materials to more than 200 internally displaced persons in Oshimili South Local Government Areas of Delta State. Mr Austin Ukah, The Publisher of Airviews News led members of the Media advocacy group on behalf of the National chairman during the weekend to present the relief materials to the more than 300 affected households. He explained that the relief materials were part of the social responsibility of the group to ameliorate the sufferings of Internally Displaced Persons across Anioma nation. Austin Ukah, during the exercise, revealed that the forum had been donating such items for a very long time, most especially during the 2012 flood that was massive. “We have been trying to put smile on the faces of the less privileged people especially those living in IDP camps,” he said. Also speaking on the development, The National Image maker,Ike Abiagom, said; “The flag off is taking place here but the distribution is done simultaneously in the 6 camps across the state. We are reaching out to about 700 families; most vulnerable, most affected of all the IDPs that is what we are doing.” Adding, “We are asking for support from private bodies and others for we to continue our support for the IDPs,as we are open for donations and direct support is also welcome. We are here to flag off the distribution and we are doing this not only in this camp but in six different camps in the state, which we have three in Asaba.
“We have bags of rice, clothing materials, blankets, mosquitoes nets, cooking oils, sanitary pads, water cans and other items. My advice to the benefitting families in this camp is that, they should use whatever that has been given them judiciously and to the glory of God because it is people that had donated these products to them.”Abiagom stressed.
One of the beneficiaries of the robust relief package, Mrs Nkechi Okolo who was displaced from Oko-Obiokpo and a mother of Nine, thanked the Grassroots Newspaper Publishers Network(GNPN) for the love shown them and prayed God to reward them. “I don’t know what to say. I greet the Grassroots Newspaper Publishers Network(GNPN) , any place they bring these things to benefit us, I tell Jesus to help them, to give them long life and prosperity.