Now, all the 13 children in her care attend school and she is able to cater for their domestic needs, all thanks to aid from the foundation.
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I sell it in the neighbourhood to cater for my children who are all attending Yemi Osinbajo government free school here in Maiduguri,” she said. Later on, the foundation gave us N18,500 each and I used it to purchase my rightfully owned 25 litres of honey. “Initially, the foundation gave me and other beneficiaries N2,000 each, I used it to make the mentholated balm I learnt from the Agency for Mass Literacy. Her story changed for the better when she met Allamin Foundation.
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Having fled to Maiduguri, Amina managed to survive by doing all sorts of manual work and trading to cater for her orphans. She recently received the news of his death after years of waiting. Amina lost the trace of her third husband in August that year during one of Boko Haram’s attacks in Gwoza, which sent her back to Maiduguri for refuge. This new husband was constantly threatened by the insurgents who felt Amina was still theirs.
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She later married a local government driver in 2014. The insurgents traced her to Gwoza and remarried her to one of their members who also lost his life during an attack at Yola before the marriage was consummated. He died during the first Boko Haram attack in Maiduguri in 2009.Īfter his death, she immediately fled back to her home town of Gwoza for safety. Her first marriage was shattered when her husband joined the Boko Haram sect and debarred her from her relations. One of them, Amina Bulamami, traced her relationship with the foundation to 2020 when Buba Saleh heard her ordeal and brought her to the foundation for succour.Īmina, a 40-year-old mother of seven and guardian of six other orphans, has been widowed thrice. Since inception in 2011, over 400 IDPs have benefited in interventions championed by Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development. This is a summary of a normal day in Allamin Foundation, located at Ring Road, close to Giwa Barrack, Old GRA, Maiduguri.
These IDPs, it was later learnt, had previously engaged themselves in various skills but now need financial support to start a business. With three females and a male IDP, Buba Saleh, the chairman of Civilian Joint Task Force at the Bakassi Camp who also plays the role of a community mobiliser, walked into the premises. This morning, he struggled to get them to spell their details which he documented in the visitors’ log book.Ī knock on the gate temporarily stopped this process. Yusuf Hassan, the gateman, is usually the first to receive such individuals. Outside the hall stood dozens of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who had visited the foundation for livelihood interventions. Then, Abba Yusuf, a staff of the foundation and moderator, would ascertain if a participant had learnt enough to start a trade to generate income and make a living if given financial support.
on a Monday in July, another batch of participants, all victims of the Boko Haram insurgency, sat for a vocational and income generation seminar on various choices of trades at the Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development.Īfter two hours training, the participants were asked to explain how they made caps, pasta, petroleum jelly, and hygiene kit.