Humanitarian
Facilitators receive training to keep girls off the streets, in schools and ensure they are safe at all times
Girl Child Concerns (GCC), in collaboration with the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), has been training facilitators to encourage girls to get an education and establish safe spaces to avoid becoming victims of gender
Local NGO helps 30 victims of the insurgency and gender-based violence to become whole again
Thirty members of Jire Dole – a network for mothers and wives of disappeared men, former detainees and survivors of abduction and gender-based violence (GBV) – have attended a two-day training workshop to help build their resilience, mental health
Second cohort of Nigerian refugees living in Cameroon voluntarily repatriated to their homeland
The second cohort of more than 200 refugees – who fled to Cameroon and who have been staying at the Minawao camp in that country – have been voluntarily repatriated to their ancestral community in the border town of Banki in the Bama
Local association offers free circumcisions to almost 300 vulnerable and poor children
The Association of Ka Fadi Alheri ko Kayi Shiru (Speak good words or remain silent) has sponsored circumcisions for almost 300 vulnerable children – mainly the kids from internally displaced persons (IDPs) and those from poor families
Families of fallen heroes in Borno State beg the government, philanthropists and God-fearing individuals for support
The families of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) members who paid the supreme price and died on battlefields in the fight against the insurgency have called on the Borno State government, philanthropists and God-fearing individuals
After a three-day vacation notice, government extends deadline and pledges to find new land for IDPs in Sare 1 camp
Philanthropists and God-fearing individuals have saved internally displaced persons (IDPs) from being evicted from Sare 1, an unofficial informal camp in Maiduguri – at least for now.
If we don’t get aid soon, we will starve to death
“If we don’t get help soon, displaced people – especially children and the elderly – are going to die from starvation.”
New informal IDP camps mushrooming around Maiduguri as the government finally shuts down all official camps
As the Borno State government closes the last few remaining official protective internally displaced persons’ camps in Maiduguri, more and more unofficial informal camps are springing up around the city.
Internally displaced persons in Fariya finally get their own shelters
Green Code, a humanitarian non-governmental organisation (NGO), has provided 30 shelters to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Fariya in the Jere Local Government Area of Borno State.
Mercy Corps steps up to help severely malnourished children and pregnant women in Damboa
Mercy Corps has stepped up to help severely malnourished children and pregnant women in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, providing nutritional support, medicines and other healthcare services.
