NGO Solicits Support For Flood-Ravaged Communities

A Niger Delta

based non-governmental organisation, Eunice Development Foundation has stressed the need for programme that will alleviate the sufferings of communities affected by the recent flood in the country.

The Legal Adviser to the foundation, Barrister Bomu Geoffrey Toby who said this in an interview with The Tide, Port Harcourt also called for post flood imput assessment in the affected communities in the country.

She particularly stressed the need for fumigation of the affected communities to prevent the outbreak of epidemics, while temporary shelters be made available to those who last houses to the flood.

Others include the provision of soft loans and seedlings to victims of the incident while programmes that will check further occurrence of flooding in the country be checked.

Barrister Boma Toby said that the Eunice Development foundation had made series of donation of relief materials to victims during and after the flood disaster.

The foundation legal adviser who is a lecturer with the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Negotiator also called for massive investment in education and youth empowerment.

She argued that proper funding of the educational sector would create an enlightened society that would be inimical to crime and other anti-social vices.

According to her, lack  investment in the educational sector has not only covered the standard of education  in the country, but has credited a  large number of educated illiterates who are job seekers instead of job creators.

Barrister Toby said that the foundation had embarked on several programmes in the society aimed at improving  the condition of the less privileged in the society.