BENIN CITY – No fewer than 70 less privileged persons living with disabilities in Edo State has benefited from the Network for the Advancement of Persons With Visible Disabilities (NAPVID) Christmas packages.
The packages which were distributed to the beneficiaries on Saturday in Benin city, Edo State capital, include rice, groundnut oil, tin tomatoes, amongst other things.
According to the executive director of NAPVID, Barr Melody Omosah, the gesture was to reach out to unemployed people with disabilities who can not provide for themselves the things they need to celebrate Christmas.
“This is festive period; know that persons with disabilities especially those of them who are not working, and who have no means of livelihood need to feel the Christmas like every other person. We feel there was a need to extend that hand of fellowship to them and give them items that would aid the Christmas celebration.
“NAPVID is involved in advocacy, empowerment for persons with disabilities; but we know that it been Christmas, people need to have food on their table and if there’s any class of persons who are worse affected are persons with disabilities themselves especially those who are not working, and with no means of livelihood”, Barr Melody told The Nigerian OBSERVER after the brief event
A beneficiary, Aliya Kate expressed appreciation to the network for the packages, adding it will enable them celebrate the Christmas as they did not expect it.
Highpoint of the event was distribution of the items to the beneficiaries who came from different parts of the state.
