NIGERIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY PROVIDES 900 HOUSEHOLDS IN BARKIN LADI AND BOKKOS LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS (LGAs), PLATEAU STATE WITH RELIEVE MATERIALS

It was jollification galore, a moment of relieve and comfort, as excitement, happiness and joy rented the air at Barkin Ladi and Bokkos Local Government Areas (LGAs), Plateau State when the Nigerian Red Cross Society whose mandate is the alleviation of human suffering, provided through support and funding from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), food and non-food items to 900 households in two distribution exercises the Society conducted recently at Barkin Ladi and Bokkos LGAs, Plateau State respectively for the benefit of the internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

Distribution of relieve materials is a critical aspect of humanitarian Aid. It is conducted mainly in areas affected by conflict and disaster. Recently, the traditional and New Media Platforms were awash with reports of conflicts and attacks leading to displacement with attendant suffering to many households in the affected areas, hence the intervention of the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) through support and funding from the ICRC that resulted subsequently to the distribution exercises as response to the crisis in the areas.

As always with the Nigerian Red Cross Society, the distribution was conducted successfully with the support of the always agile, dedicated and enthusiastic staff and volunteers of the Society, who were on hand when the call for duty came. In the Spirit of humanitarian serve delivery they played their part and contributed significantly in the collective efforts at alleviating human suffering occasioned by violent attacks witnessed in the affected areas in recent time. 

 

The recent distribution activity of the Nigerian Red Cross Society is ones again a reminder to all and sundry that humanitarian response in crisis affected areas is not just an exercise that can be done at any time but one that in all sense of responsibility demands urgency, without which the situation on ground may for obvious reasons get out of control, consequences of which is better imagined.