The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), a non-profit organisation, says it has assisted no fewer than 600,000 farmers with technical support, in its bid to reduce unemployment and alleviate poverty in the country. Adamu Garba, Executive Director, DDI, disclosed this at an event organised to celebrate the organisation’s 20th anniversary, on Wednesday, in Abuja. He said […]
The Diamond Development Initiative , a non-profit organisation, says it has assisted no fewer than 600,000 farmers with technical support, in its bid to reduce unemployment and alleviate poverty in the country. Adamu Garba, Executive Director, DDI, disclosed this at an event organised to celebrate the organisation's 20th anniversary, on Wednesday, in Abuja. He said…
He said that the organisation whose aim is to complement the role of development agencies and donors, had also provided connections to no fewer than 2,000 businesses in the country. “Over 600,000 farmers we have assisted, over 20,000 farmer groups and corporative societies and over 8,000 off-grid energy connections to rural households.
“We have the less privileged at heart because a lot of our work is done at the grassroot level, we try to reach the unreached and we go to those places that are referred to hard to reach places.
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