NAOWA Donates Training Centre To VVF Patients,  Orphanage Home, Hospitals in Sokoto

In with it’s commitment to always identified with the needy and less privileged in the society, the Nigerian Army Officers Wife Association (NAOWA) has constructed a vocational training centre for Vesicovaginal Fistula patients in Sokoto.

The centre which was built inside Maryam Abacha Women and Children Hospital, Sokoto, is expected to train the rehabilitated patients tailoring, knighting among others so as to fastened their reintegration back to the society.

The association apart from handing over to renovated building with equipment also constructed a solar power boreholes as well as provision of materials and cash to the admitted patients at the hospital.

Speaking in her remarks while inaugurating the building, the president of the association, Mrs Salamatu Faruk Yahaya, said  her association believes in lifting up the standard of living of the vulnerables in the society.

She said the association is building upon the legacies laid down by the founding leaders of the association established about 40 years ago.

Mrs Salamatu however urged the management of the hospital to make maximum use of the items so as to help in liberating the targeted victims.

Meanwhile, apart from the training center and gifts to the VVF victims, the association also donated foodstuffs to ameliorate the suffering of the victims who have stayed long in the hospital.

The association also donated medical equipment at the state specialist hospital as well as gifts to some of the patients at the maternity wards.

Speaking while receiving the equipment, the state Commissioner for health, Dr Ali Muhammad Inamme, commend NAOWA for the gesture.

He described the items donated as what the hospital in need of at this auspicious time, saying it will go a long way to help the hospital.

“What makes this donation special is the fact that unlike others, NAOWA approach us to ask for what exactly we need in the hospital and it was exactly what we requested that was donated.

“For this reason, I on behalf of the management of this hospital and that Maryam Abacha Women and Children Hospital, sincerely appreciates your gesture and your support”

The team also visited the state orphanage homes where it inaugurated another solar powered borhole system as well as foodstuffs for the use of orphanage children.

NAOWA president, in her remarks said the association has taken it upon itself to make such donations wherever the need arises across the country.

She maintained that upon many requests soliciting for it’s support, only few can be attended to due to limitation of funds.

She however assured that the association will continue to prioritize the needs of the less privileged irrespective of where they comes from across the country.