At least 10,000 indigent children in Ekiti State will be provided
Christmas dress made from ankara and other materials during the yuletide
season. The State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, disclosed this during
a meeting with tailors in Ado-Ekiti.
In a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on
Friday, the sewing and distribution of the clothes would take place in
designated centres across the 16 local government areas of the state.
Moreover, the governor said he would buy 100 sewing machines to
complement those to be used by volunteer tailors during the exercise.
The 100 sewing machines would later be given out to tailors through a transparent balloting process.
“When we were young, we always looked forward to the Christmas and New
Year festivities that at least our parents would buy clothes for us. But
with the prevailing economic situation in the country, some parents may
not be able to do that and we felt we can help to bridge such gap.
” The exercise is part of our Stomach Infrastructure Programme and we
have to take care of the needs or our people and make them happy. Also,
it is a kind of financial empowerment for our people as we are buying
all the materials here. We are also going to give the volunteer tailors
some stipends during the exercise.
Fayose said only children between the ages of one to 10 would benefit
from the exercise and that it would be first come first served. On the
style to be sewn, the governor said it would be buba and sokoto for
males and gowns for females.
Vanguard
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