Aserving National Youth Service Corps member, posted to Katsina State, Hope Bitrus. M. With State Code KT/23A/.0540,yesterday distributed wheel chairs to 70 less privileged persons, including sanitary pads and towels to 200 women in the state.

The Corps member told newsmen at the event which took place at the NYSC orientation camp, Mani road, Katsina that the effort was part of her Community Development Service (CDS) and service to humanity.

She also disclosed that she had organised training programs on menstrual Hygiene for three selected Secondary School Students in Katsina metropolis.

According to her, she embarked on the project out of empathy rather than Sympathy.

She said, “I came across some of the disabled along my way to the place of primary assignment on daily bases and each time they beg for harms, i felt how they were surviving especially their movement from one place to another.”

“I started having sleepless nights thinking how i could do something to assist the less privileged.”

She called on the people of Katsina and Nigeria, not to stigmatize the disabled but to show them love.

The NYSC Katsina State Coordinator Hajiya Aisha Muhammad while speaking at the event, commended the Corps member for the initiative.

Culled from The Nation