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Bauchi begs Canada to expand poverty reduction programme | The Guardian Nigeria News

Bauchi State Government is writing a formal request to the Canadian government to extend its Livelihood and Nutrition Empowerment (LINE) project, through Oxfam International, after six years of fighting hunger and poverty among the locals.

The LINE project by the Global Affairs Canada and Oxfam centres seeks to bring rural dwellers out of poverty and hunger.

Chairman of the Project Steering Committee, Mr. Idris Saleh, while on inspection visit to Gamawa and Shira with his team, yesterday, said the beneficiaries on the programme overshot the projected figure.

Speaking in Azare after inspecting the project, he said: “A component of the project has to do with Village Saving Loan (VSL), which affords local farmers financial inclusion and contributes funds for soft loans to improve agribusiness.

“On the nutrition component, Oxfam gives some farm inputs, mainly to women, for home…

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