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Okowa, Amata for charity day, agric forum

By Editor
05 December 2017   |   4:16 am
The Operation Help Your Neighbour (OHYN) project of Good Circle International Organisation,GCIO, a charity based organisation takes its campaign to Asaba for Wednesday...

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The Operation Help Your Neighbour (OHYN) project of Good Circle International Organisation,GCIO, a charity based organisation takes its campaign to Asaba for Wednesday, December 6, 2017 with the hosting of a Charity Day and Agric Forum.

The forum scheduled to hold at the Nigeria Labour Congress house in Asaba will feature the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa as the Special Guest of Honour and Mr. Fred Amata,an Actor and a movie producer, as well as the current President of Directors Guild of Nigeria to make a special presentation.

Operation Help Your Neigbour project is a scheme designed by GCIO to combat unemployment, poverty and crime as well as support the under privilege in Nigeria since 2016.

According to the statement released by GCIO, the forum will, apart from celebrating the virtues of charity and encouraging farming business among youths and workers, it will offer participants and the general public the opportunity to participate in the GCIO cooperative agricultural project for the 2018 farming season.

The pilot scheme of the Agriculture project that commenced six months ago has yielded maize harvest while the Cassava harvest is around the corner.

In the words of the National Coordinator of the Operation Help Your Neighhbour project, Engr. Esanerovo Agbodo, “with the success achieved so far, we hereby call on the general public to take advantage of the OHYN project and join efforts with GCIO in the next planting season.”

“Members of the public are free to tour our farm in Asaba to ascertain our claims,” he stated.

Mr. Agbodo however thanked Delta State University and the federal government through Benin-Owena River Basin Development Authority for providing land for the farming project.

The next stage will accept partnership from other state governments and land owners across Nigeria to accommodate the growing interest in the farming project, he added.

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