An NGO, Michael Dato Relief Foundation (MDRF), has kicked off a project to build a skills acquisition centre that will give free training to the poor and economically marginalised people.
City & Crime reports that the centre will be located in Bwari, headquarters of Bwari Area Council of the FCT.
Speaking during the launching on Wednesday in Abuja, the President of the foundation, Deaconess Helen Umar Michael, who said the foundation was purely humanitarian and had no religious or political affiliation, had its beneficiaries cut across all religious and political divides.
She said that from its inception, MDRF had impacted several lives among the disadvantaged and less privileged in the areas of education, health, skills acquisition and empowerment.
She added that, “The MDRF has embarked on over 50 intervention programmes of which 80 per cent of our engagements are in the areas of education and skills acquisition for the less privileged. We have brought relief to over 100 widows, empowered 20 less privileged children; equipping them with entrepreneurial and other hard and soft skills needed to be self-reliant. This is in attainment of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 1 and 4.
“I want to tell you that today, you will be writing your names in gold as you sow seeds of kindness that will later grow to become trees that will provide hope and succour to orphans, widows and other less privileged men and women around us.’’
