Ramadan/Lent: Diaulhaq provides food, cash to over 12,000 Muslims, Christians
By Mohammed Ismail
A leading entrepreneur and renowned philanthropist, Diaulhaq Abubakar, has put in place robust template to ensure no fewer than 12,000 Adamawa residents benefit from his food and cash support to Muslims and Christians during the Ramadan and Lent.
Abubakar who doubles as the President of Blue community Africa, a foundation he created to provide humanitarian interventions, skills and life support to the undeserved and less privileged said his action is in deference to God’s command of assisting the less privileged during such times.
He noted that so far, thousands of families have benefitted from the food and cash donations which he kick-started at the commencement of Ramadan/Lent about ten days ago.
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Abubakar noted that items being distributed include Rice, sugar, Maggi and cash incentives to the beneficiaries so that they will also observe the acts of worship in a convivial atmosphere especially considering the inclement economic situation of poor families.
He noted that over the years, his foundation has equipped thousands of beneficiaries with life skills in the areas of agriculture, ICT, painting and educational pursuit.
The philanthropist said the move is aimed at nipping poverty and shoring up productivity along critical windows of human capital development cutting across all demographic strata. He noted that in the present age of hyper-technology, a country that aspires to progress will not emphasize white collar jobs at the expense of blue collar jobs.
”We are not only dishing out material empowerment but we do skills training and sensitization. A lot of those we trained have acquired talents and doing excellently well in their various callings.
”We are placing a lot of priorities on skills. We have partnered with Indian institute of technology Madras to see how we can engage in knowledge transfer. We have partnered Modibbo Adama University so that we can leverage on the platform to provide lot of skills when it comes to training on any vocation,” he said.
