Source: Healthwise

The Oyo State Government, in partnership with SOS Children’s Village, a Non-Government Organisation, inaugurated a 30-man committee that will provide alternative care for vulnerable children.  The committee is made up of officials of the Oyo State ministries of Women Affairs and Education, local government representatives, associations of orphans and vulnerable children, the Nigerian Police Force, paramilitary agencies, and religious bodies.  

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Social InclusionMrs. Grace Oderinde, while inaugurating the committee in Ibadan on Tuesday, urged members to live up to expectations.  She listed challenges facing vulnerable persons to include inadequate nutrition, overcrowding and the lack of social amenities, and described them as enormous.  

The permanent secretary said the state has about 100 vulnerable persons’ homes, alongside a number of illegal ones, and encouraged Nigerians to embrace adoption to decongest such homes.