Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Bisi Fayemi, has revitalised the Ekiti State Multiple Birth Trust Fund which provides support for families with multiple births.
Mrs Fayemi broke the fund’s four-year break on Monday with the disbursement of products to 104 families.
In making the first tranche of the disbursement in Ado-Ekiti, she expressed her happiness that the trust fund was back.
She also congratulated parents who gathered at the ceremony organised by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development in collaboration with her office.
Cash gifts, baby foods and other family support products were distributed to families with multiple births at the event.
Fayemi said the Multiple Birth Trust Fund was initiated in 2010 to provide assistance for families who have been blessed by God with multiple births, but who were finding it difficult to cope because of their circumstances.
“We were receiving many reports of mothers giving birth to twins or triplets in the hospitals and the fathers running away because they were scared of how they were going to settle the bills of their obligations,” she said.
According to her, the trust fund supported no fewer than 740 families between 2010 and 2014.
The investments, according to her, were created to support the children through school on a long term basis.
She expressed her sadness for the non-continuation of the initiative after her husband left office in 2014.
