A Non Governmental
Organiation based in Delta, Management Sciences for Health, said it empowered 5,516 orphans and vulnerable children in the state in 2013.
The Coordinator of the organisation, Mrs Chidinma Okoye, said in Asaba on Sunday that out of the number, 2,764 were males and 2,752 were females.
Okoye said that the NGO, which had been working in Delta since May 2010, empowered the orphans and the vulnerable children by providing them with shelter, health, nutritional and educational services.
She said the organisation had provided mosquito nets to 3,863 children, who were also treated for minor illness.
She added that food supplements and de-worming drugs were given to 1,667 of the children, comprising 860 males and 807 females.
The NGO placed 1,784 of the children in schools and provided them with school materials, she noted and disclosed that the NGO operated in five local government areas of the state through its various arms.
She enumerated the arms as Nigeria Aids Counseling Organisation (NACO), Rural Linkage Network (RULIN), Koyenum Immalah Foundation (KIF) and Riverine Community Health Organisation (RIVCHO).
She, however, lamented that the organisation was facing financial challenges and appealed to the state government to assist it.
