Rivers State: Aid
items for Relief Camps
By Nwaorgu
Faustinus
In its bid to bring succour to
thousands of people displaced as result of the current flood which is ravaging
some parts of Nigeria, a non-profit organization that goes by the name
“Princewill’s Trust” considered it humane and delivered a truck load of relief
materials to victims of the recent flood in Rivers State.
The aid materials donated to the casualties at
Ahoada East and Ahoda
West relief camps
included medical supplies, toiletries, bottled water, torch lights, fire wood, a
tanker of clean water and several medical personnel.
The coordinator of the Princewill
Trust and a former governorship candidate in Rivers State, Tonye Princewill who
led hundreds of volunteers to the camps said it was their own way of helping to
bring succour to the displaced persons mostly from Rivers State.
According to an
online press statement made available by Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze on behalf of
the organization, called on other well-meaning individuals and groups to
identify with those in the camps as their current situation was not man-made but
due to natural disaster occasioned by the changing weather conditions across the
world.
A volunteer who
identified himself as Boma has said, “I joined the relief team set up by Prince
Tonye Princewill as a volunteer to help assist Rivers indigenes that have been
placed in relief camps due to the current flood crisis in some parts of Rivers
State. We visited two camps at Ahoada East and one at Ahoda West.The camps
were mostly overcrowded and were in need of some basic facilities such as
medical supplies, clean water, toilets etc.
Tonye Princewill also
appealed for more volunteers to join the Princewill Trust at the two camps in
Ahoada to help encourage those displaced by the worst flood in Nigeria in over
forty years.
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