IDPs Food Relief Project at: YELWATA Guma, LGA, Benue State | August 2025

LAY FAITHFUL TRUST FOUNDATION in collaboration with IKOYI CLUB 1938

"24 MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY WERE KILLED IN ONE NIGHT"

Yelwata, in Guma LGA, Benue State, was repeatedly attacked on 13 June 2025, 11 August 2025, and again on 19 August 2025 by terrorists. A total of 259 Christians were murdered in the onslaught of assaults.

One of the survivors, Ezekiel, narrated in a video testimony how the terrorists murdered 24 members of his family. He did not escape unscathed: Ezekiel suffered injuries and will bear the scars of the living nightmare that consumed his town.

The surviving residents of Yelwata fled to IDP camps in Makurdi, the state capital. Far too many for a single place, the refugees of the horrific attacks filled four IDP camps.

With humanitarian support from Ikoyi Club 1938 and other kind-hearted Christian brethren, Lay Faithful Trust Foundation conducted food relief at one of the camps in Makurdi. The items distributed included rice, garri, beans, groundnut oil, palm oil, and Maggi. Cash gifts of N15,000 each were given to some of the surviving patients in the hospital, while 70 widows received a token gift of N5,000 each.

We hope to visit the three other IDP camps accommodating the survivors from Yelwata whenever more funds are available to do so.

We thank Ikoyi Club 1938 and all the Christian brethren who contributed funds to make this relief project possible. God bless you and replenish you abundantly.

Your brother in Christ,
Bosun
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