IDPs Pray For Indimi, Dangote, Atiku At Adamawa’s Food Distribution Centres

Internally displaced persons in Adamawa State who received food and relief items in December put religious and sectarian differences aside to thank their benefactors and pray for them.

At Churches and Mosques in Jimeta-Yola, and at other distribution points in the seven Local Government Areas most hit by the insurgency, grateful IDPs offered prayers for the donors, as well as for the members of the Adamawa Peace Initiative, for continuously supplying the breadlines, even as governments and local NGOs battle to contain the humanitarian crisis in the northeast region of the country.

Medicines, blankets, vegetable oil, spaghetti, seasonings, salt, sugar, and rice that the IDPs received were bought with donations from three prominent philanthropists: Mohammed Indimi, Aliko Dangote, and AUN Founder, Atiku Abubakar.

The AUN founder has been a leader in supplying continuous financial support for the IDPs since the university’s involvement with their feeding more than a year ago.

At the St. Theresa Catholic Cathedral Church, Jimeta, where 15,500 families were served in three distributions, a Muslim woman, Amina Mamman, joined the Bishop of Yola Catholic Diocese, Stephen Mamza, in leading prayers for peace in Nigeria and in expressing appreciation to those who made the donations to support IDPs in the state.

Six hundred families received food and relief items at the Adamawa State headquarters of the Jamatu Nasril Islam, in Jimeta, on December 13, where JNI officials, Gambo Jika and Fadimatu Ahmad Marafa, led IDPs to offer prayers.

It was a similar story at the New Life Gospel Centre, Demsawo, Deeper Life Camp, and at other centres, where volunteers from the American University of Nigeria and Adamawa Peace Initiative distributed the food and relief items donated by Dangote Foundation.

IDPs and local officials took turns to thank the donors, the peacemakers, Governor Mohammed Jibrilla of Adamawa State, and the volunteers who had worked tirelessly to alleviate their suffering during the year.

All through December, the AUN-API Team supplied food, medicines and relief materials to over 163,500 households through local religious and community-based organizations in the state.

Humanitarian aid was also sent to IDPs who had relocated to their destroyed homes in the most insurgency-hit areas, through local contacts networking with AUN-API.