Encomiums Attend Family Succour Launch


...As Beneficiaries Call for Continuation of Program.

By Our Correspondence


Abakaliki-BENEFICIARIES OF the Family Succour and Upliftment Foundation, FSUF - a pet program of the Wife of the Executive Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Mrs Rachel Umahi has called for the uninterrupted continuation of the program.

The beneficiaries said because of its far reaching importance, it should be given a legislative backing by getting it institutionalised.
They spoke during the launch of the Foundation recently in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

One Mrs. Nkechi Usulor - a widow and a beneficiary said a Ministry should be created to house the Foundation and guard against its 2023 terminal stage.


Recall that upon the assumption of office four years ago, Chief Rachel Umahi initiated the program billed to drag innumerable women out of socio-economic obscurity.
Many vagina viscose fistula patients has been repaired and female genital mutilation -an obnoxious practices, outlawed by the Foundation.

Seduced by the Foundation's philosophy, global donor agencies - UNICEF and others have supported the program describing it as "laudable".

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