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The global rising living cost has brought countries with thriving social security structures to their knees, let alone developing economies, such as Nigeria, also facing rising insecurity has left families desperate and constantly struggling to make ends meet.
Food insecurity is also a big problem, as the terrorists not only kill people but destroy their farm produce so that the people’s food supplies and sources of income are diminished.
Low – income households now have to choose between giving their children adequate meals or sending them to school, in which case many children are sent home due to their parents owing school fees.
Struggling women who fall pregnant either abort or abandon their child. Some have resorted to selling their children off. This has opened up an avenue where people engage in the business of stealing, selling, and buying children. Unfortunately, some people resolve to murdering the babies in the most horrific ways. All because the children are always at the receiving end.
Nurture the Children International has intensified efforts towards Child Sponsorship Programmes, accompanied by an NTC for Women package to further support the development of the children.
Education is under attack by the terrorist groups who view education as an abomination.
Sadly, since the beginning of this year, over a dozen school attacks/kidnapping have occurred. In each case, the killing of teachers and staff on site.
On the 16th of May, the video of the beheading of a head teacher, Mr. Michael Oyedokun, who also taught the children Mathematics, went viral. His family members still have not received his corpse in order to give him a decent burial.
As it stands, 400 pupils have been abducted, their ages ranging from 9 month – old baby (who was strapped to his teacher – mother’s back when the event occurred) to 16 year old children.
