 The Niger Red Cross Society in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross is calling for support from Nigerians from all walks of life to contribute to us the welfare of poor Nigerians. The group said this at a media pally in Abu Jawa'i 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. He called on Nigerians and not the governments to be their brothers keeper by contributing to us the well-being of the poor in the country. I wanted to create this event 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, 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 out of those 2.5 a significant part of them are children. The global challenges also has an impact on the national situation. Munga 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 grass root and eased out system of attacking 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 many of 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, ranging from 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, so it is obvious that this meeting will help us to kind of promote the Nigerians giving the support by fellow Nigerians to actually aid this hunger crisis.