Kwara: Group to sensitise youth against drug abuse and addiction

Date: 2019-04-09

A Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO), Home and Street Kids Welfare Initiative (HSKi), says it will assist in the fight against drug abuse and addiction among the less privileged youths in Kwara.

Executive Director of the group, Miss Funmi Omisope, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Monday.

Omisope said that there were some less privileged youths in the society who needed help to get out of addiction, saying that some of them were involved owing to idleness and frustration.

She said that the group would embark on massive sensitisation and empowerment of such youths to keep them busy and reduce their involvement in such social ills.

"There are some youths around here in Koro Afoju, which is the community of the blind, that smoke, get high on spirits, and abuse drugs to the point of addiction, and we have HASAP (Hope Alive Skill Acquisition Programme) to assist such people.

"HASAP is a scheme under the NGO where we are committed to empowering youths for the betterment of the society.

"So, what we want to do for them is to organise a vocational training; because we think that when their minds and hands are occupied they will not think about indulging in those things.

"I have discussed with some of them by trying to disarm them and make them our friend first. These people love their freedom, and we are ready to teach them what they are willing to learn."

"We came like every other NGO to make donations to them, but on getting here, we realised they needed a lot more than food and clothing.

"They needed empowerment, education and sensitisation against the evils of drug peddling, abuse and addiction. (NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Alaaya     Ilorin     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Iyabo Adewuyi     KWSIEC     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Baba-Isale     Ibrahim Akaje     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     HYPPADEC     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Kwara Apc     LABTOP     Musbau A. Akanji     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Stephen Fasakin     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Owode Market     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Kola Bukoye     Olabimpe Olani     PharmAccess Foundation     Bluenile Associates     Saheed Alakoso     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Sabitiyu Grillo     Ishaq Oloyede     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Yusuf Abubakar     Baba Issa Awoye     Muritala Awodun     Kayode Ogunlowo     Hussein Olokooba     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Ramadhan     Yusuf Badmus     Garba Ado Sanni     John Olajide Adedipe     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Aminat Omodara     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Allocation     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Patience Jonathan     Aliyu Adebayo     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Guber Aspirant     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Oke-Ero     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Bello Abubakar     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Riskat Opakunle     Tayo Awodiji     Bukola Ajikobi     Lanre Jimoh     Mohammed Yisa     JSSCE     Baakini     Femtech     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Park     Salake     Peculiar Allowance     Tunji Ajanaku     Valsolar Consultoria     KWIRS     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Yakub Lai Gobir    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Labour Party     Babaita     Ajayi Okasanmi     Sulaiman Gado     KWASAA     Lola Olabayo     Tinubu     Sarkin Malamai     Mary Arinde     Aso-ofi     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Baruten     Wahab Agbaje     Dan-Kazeem     Ahmed Bayero     Saka Abimbola Isau     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Presidential Election     Yashikira     Senate President     Kale Ayo     Olugbense     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Kwara University Of Education     Kwara NIPR     Bayo Ajia     Ghali Muhammed     Olokoba Sulyman     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Madawaki     Kumbi Titilope     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Oye Tinuoye     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Ahman Patigi     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Oniwa     Ado Ibrahim     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Oluronke Adeyemi     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Edret Sabi Abel     Bank Of Industry     Umar Ayinla Saro     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Ronke Adeyemi     Ganmo     NIPOGA     Isiaka Abdulrazak     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Ariyo     Oni Adebayo     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     KwaraLearn     Gobir     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Adeniyi Ojo     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Yoruba     Omupo     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     LEAH Charity Foundation     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Zaratu Umar     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Oke-Ero     Babata     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Firdaos Amasa