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Givefood.ng, a coalition of partners that have come together to provide food and nourishment to Nigeria’s vulnerable in communities has been launched.
Kola Masha, Chief Executive Officer of Babban Gona who is the Coalition founder said with millions of Nigerian’s struggling to get access to food in states currently under lockdown orders and the number of COVID 19 cases increasing daily, Nigeria is facing a protracted period of economic and social disruption.
He said that while the health implications of COVID 10 are at the forefront of the debate and are driving the initial response, the economic impact of lockdown on the most vulnerable is devastating and they face a daily fight to access food and water to survive.
“Across Nigeria, civic-minded individuals and corporations are recognising this and searching for ways to support their fellow citizens, but this response needs to be coordinated and delivered at an unprecedented scale, givefood.ng is a coalition of partners that have come together to address this challenge. “Collectively, the partners will provide a technology enabled logistics solution to help those who want to direct their resources to the most vulnerable, while ensuring availability of food packs at easily accessible points for those that need them.
Masha added, “We have been inspired by the collective willingness we have seen amongst Nigerians to help their fellow citizens at a critical time. When we have millions of vulnerable people that need help, we cannot rely on the contributions or interventions of others, we must all come together to support them.
“This is the vision for givefood.ng; for ordinary Nigerians to have access to a platform that can safely and securely deliver assistance to those that need it. We believe that with the partners we have been able to bring together, the civic spirit we have seen and the support we have received from Nigeria’s private sector, we can quickly achieve a system that provides one million meals for Nigerians each week. Anyone who wants to give food can do so by simply visiting givefood. ng today,” he added.
He said that givefood.ng has over 100 food collection points through partnerships with various supermarket chains, stressing that the food packs may vary from location to location due to availability but are all valued at N2, 000 and will usually contain: 2kg swallow, 1 kg pasta, 500g sugar, 7 – 9 packets of 70g instant noodles, 4 packets of 70g tomato paste and soap.
Giving the details of how the coalition works, Marsha said that, a sponsor who wants to support a beneficiary in their community visits givefood.ng and loads money into their account, that the money uploaded will be converted into a number of weeks of food for one individual calculated at N2, 000 per week per person.
He added that the sponsor selects the specific location from a list on the website where beneficiaries can access to donate to, that the sponsor can personally add a specific beneficiary and select the specific location where this beneficiary will pick up the donation from.
He also noted that sponsors can decide how many weeks of food he or she wants to provide to each beneficiary.
Speaking further he said that the sponsor then generates a token on the website for each beneficiary which can be sent as an SMS to the beneficiary or printed/written down and physically given.
He said the beneficiary can go to any participating distribution partner and redeem the value of the token.
“So, if the beneficiary has been given two weeks of food, he or she will receive two packages of non-perishable food items,” he added.
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