SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

EDITORIAL

The month of September reminds us of the importance of our duties as humanitarian workers and what we owe the most vulnerable members of our society. The month is a culmination of celebrations and rapid interventions due to the sudden flood event that rendered thousands homeless.

The activities for this month started with an international event tagged National Nutrition Week with the theme Nutrition Diet for Everyone. The event took place from 1^st – 5^th of September and LPF took full part of it with educative posts on all its social media platforms.

The month recorded lots of Birthday Celebrations which included;

5^th Sept. Danladi Kanuwara – Nutrition Assistant (Gwoza LGA)

9^th Sept. Mr. Emmanuel Orubor – Country Director

10^th Sept. Yusuf Daniel – Driver

14^th Sept. Rebecca John – WASH Assistant

15^th Sept. Mrs. Lydia Adams – Executive Director

A few of these celebrations will be summarized here.

On the 9^th of September, Mr. Emmanuel Orubor’s Birthday (LPF Country Director) was celebrated. On this date, the Staff and well-wishers of LPF with exhilaration shared well wishes to Mr. Emmanuel in a grand style with a video capturing their wishes from all our implementing locations. Mr. Emmanuel was grateful and expressed his gratitude.

While we were still in celebration mode about the CD’s Birthday, a traumatic event hit Maiduguri on the 10^th of September.

Alou Dam collapsed and Maiduguri & Jere being on the runway of the flood was seriously hit, thousands of homes were submerged and lots of people were automatically rendered homeless and vulnerable.

LPF immediately sprang into a Rapid Response to render Humanitarian services to the affected Persons who were camped in various locations.

Amidst the flood event and the rapid response by LPF, staff, and volunteers still took time to celebrate the Executive Directors’ Birthday Mrs. Lydia Adams which took place on the 15^th of September.

The WASH program in Bama and Dikwa heightened its activities by commencing major implantation which included;

1. Rehabilitation and disinfection of sanitation facilities
2. Rehabilitation of boreholes

• Chlorination of water reservoirs

1. Desludging of filled-up sanitation facilities
2. Activating flood preventive measures
3. And WASH services.

21^st of September was International Peace Day with the theme “Cultivating a Culture of Peace”. LPF is a strong advocate of Peace at all levels so it keyed into this event and shared messages on all its social media platforms to encourage Peace and harmony in our society.

The nutrition team led by Nutrition Officer Paul Clark carried out a Refresher training for community nutrition mobilizers, nutrition health workers, and nutrition assistants on the 30^th of September. 30 persons were in attendance and the training was impactful.

Lastly, the Information and Communication Officer made a trip to Dikwa for a communication support trip from 12^th September to 16^th September to gather imagery data of field activities for video documentary for of the program.