IDPs in Durumi, Abuja, forgotten by government -Mrs. ANGONIMI David-Imeh

Mrs. ANGONIMI David-Imeh of Hope Raisers Global Foundation visited Development Imapact office for this chat where she narrated the plight of the IDPs from Borno who are in Durumi Area in Abuja. 

D. IMPACT: First let’s start from you introducing yourself ma. 

Mrs. ANGONIMI David-Imeh: My name is Angonimi David-Emeh, I have an NGO with the name Hope Raisers Global Foundation and its based in Abuja. Our main purpose is to see how we can intervene in development of our communities and the nation at large, specifically pertaining the upcoming generation. Children. We want to see them have proper and qualitative education, see that they get good health, feed well, and the issues pertaining the well being of the Girl Child. 

D. IMPACT: What is your latest project? 

Mrs, ANGONIMI David-Imeh: Right now we have a project we call Project Keep Them Warm. It is geared towards feeding the clothing the children in the IDP camps. We started from Durumi IDP camp in Abuja where we fed about 125 children. The state of the IDP camp in Durumi is pathetic. Government need to intervene in the process of resettling these people so that they can live like human being. The way they are living there is simply unacceptable. These are human beings in their own country. From what we hear most of them are from Borno State, Gwoza to be specific. To be left like that without care is a time bomb. They are giving birth in the camp and these children will not know normal. The hygiene of the place can even cause epidemic. Right now the children have coloured eyes, maybe jaundice, we are planning  to see how we can partner with other NGOs so that we can do a test for them and see what really wrong. 

D. IMPACT: How do you get funding?

Mrs. ANGONIMI David-Imeh: Right now I am using my little resources to take care of things. Its a passion. When you are passionate, there is always a way. But we are looking for NGOs and groups with the same goal as ours to partner with so that we can help people. I tried reach out to Hamrat Lawal of CODE one time, but we haven’t gotten any response yet.

D. IMPACT: These IDPs are Bormo, what message do you have for the Borno State government on their behalf?

Mrs. ANGONIMI David-Imeh: They are right now in the FCT but it seems they are not the problem of the FCT. From what I see the FCT hasn’t taken proper care of them. There may be a need for the Governor of Bormo State to intervene on behalf of his people. They came from Borno after Boko Haram took over their communities and killed many people and they lost so much. They lost family members and their means of livelihood. It is the duty of government to protect them and since they couldn’t do it and these people are displace, we need to be seeing government interventions in their lives. NGOs cannot do everything.

They are not just in the IDP Camps, they are giving birth to children, their children are growing and some of them have no means of livelihood. We are also planning to start a campaign on family planning, hypertiatis vaccination and screening there.

D. IMPACT: We at the Development IMPACT are friends to Nuhu Kwajafa of GIPLC, he partners with many NGOs to intervene in some of these cases. Have you reach out to people like him.

Mrs. ANGONIMI David-Imeh: You will link us to them so that we can help in areas where they cannot cover. The truth is that a lot needs to be done in our society like right now when things are difficult for normal people talkless of the less priviledged.