Dangote Foundation initiates N4.2bn projects in Kano

The philanthropic works being undertaken by Dangote Foundation to support Kano State government has hit the N4.2 billion mark, Zouera Youssoufou, CEO of the Foundation, has said.

Of this amount, N1.2 billion is spent annually on a feeding project, a special purpose vehicle designed by the Foundation to reduce hunger and extreme poverty among the down trodden in the state.

The Foundation CEO made these disclosures at a meeting with the state governor, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso, during a working visit to the state.

The revelation was greeted with applause by the state governor who commended the Foundation, its founder, Aliko Dangote and the management for their interest in seeing that Kano State was transformed in line with the policy direction of the government.

Youssoufou said the her team was in Kano to monitor the various ongoing projects being undertaken, assess their stages of completion and ensure they were in conformity with design and expectation of the people they were meant for.

She assured the governor that Dangote Foundation was a global institution and would ensure that all the projects were of international standard, as some of the projects were being redesigned in line with new developments and realities.

According to Youssoufou, the Foundation’s micro-grant programme for empowerment for women and other vulnerable groups in the state has gulped about N880 million, with 88,000 women so far benefitting from it while the Animal Traction Programme executed through a Revolving Loan to farmers, has cost N160 million.

In the areas of provision of clean water, the CEO said the Foundation had contracted out the construction of borehole facilities for 220 communities across the 44 local government areas of the state at the cost of N110 million.

The Kano State governor was full of appreciation to the Foundation for its development agenda for the state and assured the Foundation that all the projects when completed would be adequately maintained.

The Dangote Foundation has done so much for Kano in the last four years, especially in the area of polio eradication, which the state is grateful for, he said.