Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) in 11 states of Nigeria have received Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) from the European Union (EU)-funded Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (RoLAC) Programme to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The states are Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Enugu, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Lagos, Niger, Sokoto and Yobe. Other beneficiaries are service providers, which work in the area of sexual and gender-based violence including selected Family Support Units (FSUs) in police stations, Police Clinic, Abuja, and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
RoLAC, in a statement issued at the weekend by its national programme manager, Mr Danladi Plang, said that the PPE distributed to the beneficiaries were hand gloves, hand sanitisers, surgical face masks, disinfectants and disposal aprons.
Plang said that the support also covered the provision of telephone airtime to enable the SARCs offer telephone counselling and follow up with…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
