The United Nations Population Fund, in collaboration with the Bauchi State Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, has met with about one hundred internally displaced women and adolescent girls to commemorate the 2024 World Humanitarian Day in the state.
The state Programme Officer, Deborah Tabara, said women are more affected by the ongoing security crisis and the recent protracted climate change floods in northern Nigeria.
She said Bauchi State, being neighbours to insurgent-ravage states in the North East, North Central and North West, has over time, become a home for internally displaced persons for some time now.
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According to statistics provided by the Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA), there are sixty four thousand internally displaced persons across the 20 local governments, in about 113 different locations, in no existing camps – with women and adolescent girls making up most of the number.
The one hundred selected women and adolescent girls were educated on gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health care and provided with various packages of items.
(Editor: Oloyede Oworu)
