Foundation Auctions Yams In Kogi, To Invest Proceeds In Women, Youths Empowerment

A non governmental organisation, Lift Up Care Foundation has said that the wealth realised from its auctioning of yam tubers produced by farmers empowered by Lift Up Care Foundation successful Osara, Kogi State would beryllium utilized to beforehand its empowerment programmes.

Speaking during the auctioning of the yam tubers astatine Lift Up Care Foundation bureau located astatine 200 lodging Units successful Lokoja connected Friday, the chairperson of Kogi NGO’s Network (KONGONET), Hamza Aliyu, described the effort arsenic a caller thought that different civilian nine organisations successful the authorities should emulate.
He said, “No NGO successful Kogi State has invested oregon trained radical successful the country of farming. This effort shows that CSOs successful the authorities are reasoning however to negociate their income and resources for the betterment of the radical astatine the grassroots.

“This yam tubers are not industrially produced, it was locally produced by farmers trained and empowered by Lift Up Care Foundation. This is thing we volition similar to spot much of successful Kogi State.”
He urged the instauration to scale-up the farming activities truthful that much yields successful antithetic workplace nutrient tin beryllium realised adjacent year.

Speaking connected the auctioning of yam tubers, the KONGONET chairperson described it arsenic a caller innovation that volition proceed to represent CSOs successful bully light.

He appealed to different CSOs successful the authorities to emulate the instauration successful the country of farming truthful that aggregate crops tin beryllium auctioned to radical adjacent year.

Also successful his remarks, the enforcement director, Renaissance Care and Empowerment Foundation (RECEF) Ambassador Idris Ozovehe Muraina, commended Lift Up Care Foundation for the caller idea, promising that RECEF volition look into however they tin besides put successful farming.

The task serviceman of Lift Up Care Foundation Mr Mohammed Sumaila, successful his remarks , explained that the instauration trained farmers and gave them inputs and the onshore to cultivate astatine Osara, noting that the result of the empowerment was the tubers of yam the instauration invited radical to bargain done auctioning.

He assured that the proceed of the auction volition beryllium utilized to empower radical to spell into snail farming to amended their modular of living.