Over 7,000 Vulnerable Households Receive CCT Stipends In Jigawa1 min read

Over 7,000 poor and vulnerable house­holds in Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State have received the sti­pends of N140m money under the Fed­eral Government re-commencement Household’s Uplifting Program Con­ditional Cash Transfer Scheme.

Flagging off the payment under the Households Uplifting Programme under the Conditional Cash Transfer of the Federal Government Social Intervention Programm ( SIP) at the Auyo Council Secretariat, the Chair­man, Ahmad Muhammad Sani, com­mended the laudable initiative of the Federal Government in curtailing poverty among rural dwellers through the payment’s of the Conditional Cash Transfer Money Scheme.

According to him, this pattern of payments has uplifted the living stan­dard of the poor and vulnerable in our community at the grassroots levels as it helps immensely in making the peo­ple to gain employment based on one’s areas of commercial venture.

Available records have indicat­ed that majority of the women are engaged in different economic pro­grammes through the support of this Federal Government CCT support, said the council chairman.

Source: https://independent.ng/