Tozali Most Relevant Pet Project Award!!!

TOZALI MOST PERFORMING PET PROJECT AWARD NOMINEE – SALAMATU TANKO AL-MAKURA

Pet ‘’Projectism’’ has come to define the office of every state first lady. Tozali looks at the relevance of the various first ladies to the plight of the masses. Are the pet projects tailored to poverty alleviation? How have these pet projects been able to combat unemployment among women and the youths? How have these pet project cared for the sick, the elderly and the weak in the society?

Nasarawa State First Lady, Her Excellency Hajiya Salamau Tanko Al-Makura, has always changed the living standard of the poor by rendering an unquantifiable service to the less privileged. Her exalted pet project, Mother and Child Care Enhancement Foundation (MCCEF), among many others, has set the pace for others to follow. She eradicated a paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty and scarcity in the midst of abundance in Nasarawa State. She provides soft loans and equipment for trained and trainee women and youths with specific emphasis on the physically challenged and those from poor backgrounds. She brought under control malaria scourge, malnutrition, disease and squalor. She launched massive campaign against HIV/AIDS accessibility to quality health care to pregnant women. She encouraged and supported immunisation exercises support to orphans and vulnerable children. She empowered women to be self-reliant and economically independent to fend for themselves and support their families alongside the men. She provides sex education and increases school enrolment, plus retention of girls in schools. She also provides a special mouth-watering scholarship package for gifted children to encourage pursuit of further education anywhere in the world. She helped in training 850 students in various vocational disciplines, including fashion design, interior decoration, computer literacy skills, bead making, cloth dying, soap making, hand and traveling bags, home management, environmental sanitation and hospitality. She has a dedicated commitment to the etiquettes of good governance, aggressive approach to the demands of her people and a passionate desire for improving the welfare of all.