Abia State Government lunches grants on agro based cooperatives and conditional cash transfer.

Abia State Government in collaboration with the office of
the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs
launches Grants on
*Agro-Based Cooperatives (ABC)
* Village Health Workers (VHW)
*Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)
The focal Persons:
The Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) under this scheme
2250 households will be benefiting. They are to satisfy the
following conditions:
*Those with Children under 0-5 years must immunize
them.
*Pregnant women must attend the ante-natal in the PHCs
provided by MDGs to their communities.
Those with Children between 5-15 years must have 90%
attendance in School.
Each Household will receive 5,000 (Five thousand Naira)
only every month for a period of one year, and a grant of
100,000 only at the expiration of the scheme, which is
expected to be invested in Agro related businesses. The
beneficiaries have been issued with a cell phone with Glo
SIM card each. This will alert them when their account is
credited by Eco Bank Plc.
The Agro-based cooperatives: This innovation will geared
towards job creation in rural areas in the agricultural
sector. It is aimed at attaining food security and
attainment of MDGs goal 1 which is eradication if extreme
poverty and hunger. The selected 36 Agro based
cooperatives will receive 500,000 Five Hundred Thousand
Naira each.
The Village Health Workers Scheme: This time,
conditionally Grant Scheme seeks to move beyond
building of infrastructures and improving service delivery
to the responding to emerging priorities and challenges.
One of such issues is the need to increase to increase the
uptake and utilization of MDGs health facilities across the
country, hence the VHWs scheme. They are paid 15,000
Fifteen Thousand Naira Only monthly.