 An Nigerian Red Cross Society in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross is calling for support from Nigerians for their works of life to contribute towards the welfare of poor Nigerians. The group set these at a media palace in Abuja while calling attention to the plight of the poorest of the poor in the country. According to the representative of the International Federation of the Red Cross team leader in Nigeria, over 25 million Nigerians are living in abject poverty with 2.5% critically in need of help with children mostly affected. We hope so and I hope that through you the media that we are able to reach to a common Nigerian that they should feel that they can contribute to this. You know we played a small video and we are happy to share it with you where you heard that somebody who receives even 20,000 Naira a month can benefit from that and if you are able to save and give 20,000 Naira or 50,000 Naira I implore you that you should look out to Nigerian Red Cross and give it to us so that we can give it pass it on to your fellow Nigerians. My message is to the common man in Nigeria. I think that the common Nigerian can afford to support their common Nigerian brothers and sisters and I think the 200 million Nigerians and not the government to be their brothers keeper by contributing to what's the well-being of the poor in the country. To pass this message on to the public of Nigeria that they need to participate, participate with us in Nigeria Red Cross to be able to support the interventions that they are making to support their fellow Nigerians here in Nigeria. I think the numbers are there it's I think the people at risk is about 25 million people in Nigeria and out of those 25 million people we have I think about 2.5 very critically in need and and out of those 2.5 a significant part of them are children. The global challenges also has an impact on the national situation. We also have our own local factors but locally we can have a lot of more inclusion within the system so that we can have an eased out from the from from from the grass root an eased out system of attacking the the hunger crisis if and when all of us are involved. The issue of fundraising you know I mean we observe clearly it's very critical for the society to look for funding in order to meet up with the demand and expectation of the people who are serving in order to increase the community resilience especially those affected by this hunger crisis ranging from north to southern part of Nigeria east to west it's very critical that we need to look for funding both locally and internationally very very critical I think Nigerians are very good in supporting their students their colleagues so it is obvious that this meeting will help us to a kind of promote the the Nigerians given the support by fellow Nigerians to actually aid this hunger crisis. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.