By Bayo Muhammad Alabira, Dutse
A Non Governmental organization, Save the Children International (SCI) has brought to an end its two year’s programme which gave birth to many pilot projects executed in various communities in Kiyawa local government area of Jigawa state.
During the review meeting organised by Save the Children International and held on Thursday at Manpower Development Institute (MDI) Dutse, resolved that the communities in Kiyawa LGA would henceforth be taking the responsibility of running the programme by themselves.
To make the programme continue, members of the communities in Kiyawa LGA had selected the District head of Kiyawa, Alhaji Adamu Aliyu to lead the programme and continue from where the NGO stopped.
The selection of the District head was announced by the chairman of Kiyawa local government area, Alhaji Nasiru Muhammad while appreciating the NGO during the review meeting.
The council chairman said, there is need for the programme carried out by the Inspiring project of Save Children International to be sustained across the communities of Kiyawa and beyond.
He said the choice of Alhaji Adamu Aliyu Kiyawa to lead the crusade in the LGA was done unanimously by the entire members of the communities that benefited imensely from the gesture.
Also speaking, the Project Manager of Save Children International in Jigawa state, Alhaji Abdullahi Magama explained that structures developed by SCI were handed over to Kiyawa PHC Manager, for continuation from where the project stopped.
The Projects Manager said in its two years of operation, SCI has developed a lot of community structures that contributed well toward fighting the five child killer diseases.
He said over 350 community health volunteers groups were formed and trained on various responses and prevention against the child killer diseases such as Pneumonia among others.
He added that many health workers were trained on how to sustain environmental hygiene, and numerous health equipment including gas cylinders were distributed free to various health facilities and hospitals across the state.
He therefore urged government at all levels, particularly the state to continue with the programme and expand the projects to other local governments of the state.
