The first lady, Oluremi Tinubu, on Monday, distributed food items to 250 vulnerable persons in Enugu through her Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI).

The programme, titled “Food outreach scheme and donation of food items to vulnerable groups in Enugu State”, was aimed at supporting the poor and the vulnerable.

Some of the food items distributed included noodles, spaghetti, semovita, baby food and others, while

the beneficiaries were mainly persons with disabilities (PWDs), widows and other vulnerable people in the state.

Distributing the items on behalf of Mrs Tinubu, wife of the state governor, Nkechinyere Mbah, said that the exercise was the second batch shared by the first lady in the state.

“Oluremi Tinubu is doing this because of her good leadership to alleviate the plights of the less-privileged in the country.

“It may be little but it is something. We are distributing them to 250 selected vulnerable persons and I pledge to distribute my own palliative to those who did not receive today.

“We will keep on remembering and empowering those in rural areas, no matter how little,” she stated.

One of the beneficiaries, Gideon Eze, expressed gratitude to Mrs Tinubu and Mr Mbah’s wife, saying PWDs in the state were happy with the gesture.

“We are very happy to have been part of this gesture today,” Eze, who is the Public Relations Officer, Joint National Association of Persons With Disabilities (JONAPWD),” he said.

He, however, appealed to the state government to fulfill the promise of establishing a disability commission in the state in order to cater for their welfare.

Another beneficiary, Ogadimma Chime, said that the food items would go a long way in helping their families, especially now that the country was facing economic hardship.

“May Almighty God bless Nkechinyere Mbah and Tinubu’s wife for us,” Chime, a widow, said. 

(NAN)