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WHD: Humanitarian advocates greater support for aid workers

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Save Our Heritage Initiative (SOHI) and Lead Humanitarian, Ms. May Ikokwu, has urged more funding for a...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief August 19, 2022
Updated August 19, 2022 at 3:31 PM
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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Save Our Heritage Initiative (SOHI) and Lead Humanitarian, Ms. May Ikokwu, has urged more funding for aid workers both in Nigeria and throughout the world.

On Friday in Abuja, World Humanitarian Day (WHD) 2022 was observed, and Ikokwu made the call.

Focusing on Thousands of Volunteers, Professionals, and Crisis-Affected Individuals Who Deliver Urgent Healthcare, Shelter, Food, Protection, Water, and Much More is the event's focus.

The CEO of the company remarked that when a tragedy strikes, humanitarian workers are always the first to arrive on the scene. He praised them for helping those in need and claimed that they represent a worldwide community.

She emphasised the imperatives of rallying support for people who faced different challenges to ease their suffering and bring hope to others.

She added that “we should all try to know the challenges of aid workers so as to proffer solution to them as a village of helpers.

“A lot of people in Nigeria and in many countries of the world have been displaced by either natural disasters or war; we should put more efforts to assist aid workers as they go about helping survivors of such diasters.”

She described humanitarian aid as an essential act of love and care, necessary for global development.

The humanitarian, who urged well-meaning Nigerians to assist those in need, said “it is time women, older persons and children in insurgency areas are given desired help and care.

“Humanitarian aid is seen as a fundamental expression of the universal value of solidarity between people and a moral imperative.

“Our sisters, children and older persons, including vulnerable persons in Borno, Adamawa and other war torn areas should be given hands of fellowship.”

Ikokwu affirmed the collective benefits of humanitarian aid as communal harmony and stability.

According to her, crime or thoughts of suicide or homicide are likely to reduce when someone in a seeming hopeless state is given hope and meaning for his or her life.

“Touch a life today and make him or her have reason to cheer up and wish to live on.

She said that according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) updated 2022 report, internal displacement in Nigeria was the result of a multitude of complex and often overlapping triggers and drivers.

She added that “the activities of Boko Haram and other Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs), led to significant displacement in the North East since 2009.

“According to the IDMC Report, around 3.2 million people live in internal displacement.”

She also identified natural disasters such as rainy season and flood as being responsible for displacement of other thousands of people every year.

Newsmen report that on Aug. 19, 2003, a bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

Five years later, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution designating Aug. 19 as World Humanitarian Day (WHD).
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