Following the conclusion of the first half of phase one distribution of emergency food response packages to 20 local councils and 37 local council development areas, Lagos State said it would soon start the second half of the food stimulus intervention.
The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Gbolahan Lawal, who disclosed this while reviewing the activities of the Committee on the COVID-19 Emergency Food Response, said that the targeted audience to be reached at the next phase are people living with disabilities, the elderly who had earlier received SMS from the Lagos State Resident Registration Agency (LASRRA), and vulnerable people within certain catchment communities and in the informal sector.
In a statement, he stated that the state government had reformed the strategy and approach of the distribution to reach the targeted people in next half of the intervention, adding that the reform was necessitated by the lessons learnt during the first half of the COVID-19 emergency food response. (Text courtesy Guardian)