To cushion the effect of the current lockdown, the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) in Ekiti State has donated relief items to members and vulnerable people in the state.
Distributing the materials on Wednesday at the NUJ Secretariat, Old Governor’s Office, Ado-Ekiti, NAWOJ Chairperson, Mrs Fatima Bello, appreciated the state government for donating the items to the association.
She said the items were donated to the vulnerables in the society to alleviate the current hardship as the government combats the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bello said, “NAWOJ in distributing the relief materials focused on the vulnerables. Members were assigned to submit the names of indigents like widows, aged, single parents and the unemployed around them. The list was compiled and we have started giving out the packages which comprises food items.
“Identified vulnerable female journalists would also benefit from the palliatives.”
The Chairperson appreciated the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi and his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, for including journalists as beneficiaries of government’s COVID-19 relief programme.