Oyo Govt Partners NGO on alternative care for vulnerable children

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.

Oyo Evacuates 48 Destitute, homeless children

Source: Daily Post

Oyo State Government has evacuated no fewer than forty-eight destitute and homeless children in Ibadan, the state capital.  The action, according to the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Inclusion, Alhaja Faosat Saani, was done as part of activities in commemoration of the World Mental Health Day.  

Saani, while speaking, maintained that the evacuation was necessary to make a better living for the concerned individuals as the destitute and those with mental health issues would be taken to rehabilitation centers while children used to beg would be taken back to school.  “The raid was meant to clear the streets of street children, beggars, mentally-derailed persons who have become an eyesore to the State and to give them necessary attention at the rehabilitation centers while the children will be registered in schools.