SURE-P In Borno Engages 4,000 In Community Services

No fewer than 4,000 people
in Borno State were engaged in community-based development activities under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) in 2013.
The SURE-P Coordinator in the state, Malam Wakil Kalanga, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri yesterday.
Kalanga said that the participants were being empowered under the Community Services, Women and Youths Employment (CSWYE) project of the SURE-P.
The beneficiaries he said were drawn from the 27 local governments areas, included youths, women and vulnerable groups selected by the community leaders in their various localities.
According to him, the beneficiaries were being exposed to community-based services like environmental sanitation and beautification; facilities maintenance; community security, and  many other socio-economic services needs of the communities.
The coordinator said that this was meant to improve the living standard of the people.
“Other services provided by the beneficiaries, include teaching in primary and secondary schools. Some of the beneficiaries are exposed to carpentry, painting, plumbing and inter-locks making.
“Some of them were also engaged in planting of trees, maintenance of green parks and planting of trees,” the coordinator said, adding that N10,000 was paid to each of the beneficiaries as monthly stipend for a five-hour work per day, adding that it was paid into the individual’s  bank accounts.
He remarked that the gesture was meant to also motivate the beneficiaries to build trust in government policies, programmes and projects.
The programme is designed to provide temporary employment opportunities in community services for up to 185,000 unemployed and unskilled Nigerian youths and women from all states of the federation.