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The O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation has distributed relief items worth N60 million to 2,000 families displaced by flood in Akinima, Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State in line with its humanitarian mandate.
The relief items including food, toiletries, medication, wrappers, and treated mosquito nets, were received with gratitude and joy. The medical team that accompanied staff and volunteers of the foundation also attended to over 700 patients.
Chairman of O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation, Dr. Seinye Lulu-Briggs said in the past 21 years, the Foundation has remained committed to caring for the underprivileged through impactful interventions in line with its mission.
“In addition to our routine work, the O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation will provide humanitarian relief to Nigerians when disasters like the flood emergency that so many people in Nigeria are facing occur. As the flooding worsened, we received many phone calls from communities where we have intervened over the years. The water rose very quickly. We heard that Akinima was submerged. We knew that reaching the families in the adhoc IDP camps in Akinima was urgent because they were isolated due to the water volume. A team that we sent on a reconnaissance mission a few weeks ago to assess the situation reported that the situation families were in was worse than what we witnessed ten years ago in the same places. We lent a helping hand then. We are standing with the displaced families now.”
Lulu-Briggs said the flooding crisis was a reminder that climate change is real. She called on governments and international bodies to support NGOs working where the impact of climate change is greatest to build resilience, adaptation, and mitigation strategies on the ground.
Lulu-Briggs thanked the Foundation’s partners, including the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, which provided logistics and security support, Old Port Harcourt City Association of Friends, traditional ruler of Akinima Community and his Council of Chiefs, volunteers, friends, and family.
One of the beneficiaries, Awori Onisofein, praised the O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation, saying its intervention was timely and valuable because most people and families had nothing.
