In the spirit of EID -el Kabir celebration, an NGO, Teku Farm Foundation (TFF) has donated food items and cash to families of deceased colleagues in the horticultural business in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria.
Founder of the NGO, Ibrahim Salisu presented the donations to nine families of 21 children and 6 widows of the deceased colleagues at Kabala Doki, Kaduna North Local Government Area on Sunday,
He called on the Government and well meaning individuals to come to the aid of the children of their deceased colleagues even if by offering them scholarship to study horticulture in tertiary institutions so that they could continue with the family business.
“We hope to take the children of our deceased colleagues off the street, and return them to the classroom even up to tertiary institutions so that they go and study horticulture and come back to continue their father’s business,” he said.
Salisu used the occasion to speak on the activities of the NGO which include supporting the development of forestry and protecting the environment against degradation arising from climate change.
It also compliment government’s efforts in providing employment to the teaming unemployed youth through the business of horticulture and other activities which are aimed at protecting trees .
He said TFF would collaborate with the State Government, private organisations or well-meaning individuals to protect the environment through trees planting to fight desertification and climate change.
Also Speaking , Secretary of Horticultural Unity and Development Association, Kaduna, Mohammed Garba, said that the Teku Farm Foundation within its short life span , carried out similar activities during the last Eid-il Fitr celebration and hoped that it would increase the gesture next year.
He said that the foundation will not only stop at distributing food items and cash donations, but also look at financing the education of children of their deceased colleagues as well as take care of their health needs.
Some of the families that benefited from the donation expressed happiness and thanked the foundation for such beautiful effort.
Director African Climate Reporter : Comrade Mohammed Zakaria applauded the effort of TEKU foundation for assisting late family of horticulture bussiness,
He appealed to all business men in Africa to equally emulate such a beautiful gesture