The Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation have given the Borno State government a grant of 1 million Dollars, meant for resetting the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno State.
The foundation is aimed at targeting displaced victims of insurgency ready to return to their ancestral homes.
The intervention was released through the Rebuilding and Reconstruction Ministry of the State, constituted for resetting the IDPs.
Nearly two million people, were driven from their home towns, in remote parts of Borno State by insurgency and had found temporary shelter in the capital city and nearby states. The recent military successes and recapture of some of the troubled towns has made locals to return to their home towns.
One of the IDPs, Halimatu Ali in appreciation said, “We are grateful, we have never received any kind of help since we returned, we only hear about it until today. We thank Bill and we pray for him.”
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