By Philip Yatai

Malam Haruna Ango, Ward Head of Rumada Community in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Saturday, commended the Federal and Kaduna State Governments for remembering the poor and vulnerable.

Ango gave the commendation during a field visit for community engagement by Community-Based Targeting Teams under the National Social Safety-Nets Programme.

The teams were undergoing training on the processes involve in the identification and capturing of Poor and Vulnerable Households (PVHHs) into the state and national social register.

He said that the poor and vulnerable people in the community were suffering from untold hardship due to poverty and need all the support they can get.

According to him, generating the data of poor and vulnerable households is a laudable step toward reaching out to poor and vulnerable people in communities.

“I really commend the federal and state governments for initiating the social register of poor and vulnerable households at the national and state level.

“This is a sure way of reaching out to the poor and vulnerable with one form of support or the other to improve their chances of survival and quality of life”

The community leader particularly thanked the federal and state governments for giving community the power to identity the poor and vulnerable households among them to be captured in the social register.

Also speaking, the Youth Leader of the community, Mr Aliyu Musa, equally thanked the governments for realising the need for a data of households that need supports, to enable them to survive abject poverty.

Musa pledged the total support of the youth in all the processes involve in generating the data in the community.

On his part, the Head of Cripples, Jema’a Emirate, Mr Mohammed Sabo, who equally lauded the initiative, appealed to the governments to ensure that people with disabilities were not left out.

According to him, people with disabilities are often forgotten and excluded from government interventions.

The Kaduna State Government had on Thursday, began a three-day training on Community-Based Targeting Processes in the three Senatorial Zones.

The training was in collaboration with the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO) as part of efforts to develop the State Social Register.