Foundation Launches Programme To Empower Military Families

The Support Our Troops (SOT) Foundation yesterday launched its yearly empowerment programme to amended the payment and economical stableness of subject families crossed Nigeria.

The one-year inaugural volition widen targeted enactment to widows, orphans, wounded soldiers, deployed unit and retired servicemen and women.

At the motorboat successful Abuja, the instauration announced program to empower 100 beneficiaries nationwide by October 2026, with astatine slightest 70 per cent expected to execute sustainable income wrong a twelvemonth of grooming and mentorship.

The empowerment thrust volition absorption connected vocational and entrepreneurial skills, tiny concern improvement and nonstop payment support.

The main coordinating serviceman of the SOT Foundation, Ojinika Mba-Kalu described the motorboat arsenic a renewed telephone to corporate work and a amusement of gratitude to the  equipped forces.

She noted that the inaugural was portion of a  run to code long-standing concerns astir the surviving conditions of subject families, peculiarly those of fallen heroes.

According Mba-Kalu, the programme volition unfold successful phases, opening with the enactment of beneficiaries done a transparent concern model with cardinal subject associations.

The archetypal grooming cohort, she added, is expected to statesman aboriginal adjacent year, covering some vocational acquisition and concern education. A 2nd cohort volition travel by mid-2026, with the last circular of fiscal grants and enactment disbursed by September.

The instauration said the task was designed to beforehand integrity, stableness and self-reliance among subject families portion strengthening societal inclusion and nationalist unity. Beneficiaries volition person some grooming and post-launch mentoring to guarantee continuity and measurable progress.

She said, “We are going to widen our enactment to not conscionable the widows, but besides the deployed troops, the wounded, the orphans, and the retired soldiers. That is our precedence and absorption for this one-year-long programme.

“Our imaginativeness is to assistance the spirits of Nigerian subject unit and their families. Whether it is the widows of fallen heroes, retired officers oregon their dependents, they each substance to us.”

One of the directors of foundation, Tokumbo Oladende, said since its inception, SOT had worked intimately with the Ministry of Defence and different partners to present attraction packs, schoolhouse supplies and enactment materials to barracks communities nationwide. It has besides sponsored infirmary treatments and provided learning instrumentality to subject schools.

He noted that beyond fiscal empowerment, the programme aimed to reconstruct dignity and assurance among families that person borne the load of subject work and to rise consciousness among Nigerians astir their shared work successful supporting those who support the country.