F.Y Farms have revamped a dilapidated borehale in Angwan Bashayi a community in Karu Local Government area of Nasarawa State on Tuesday.
Raye24reporters gathered that the community, who is playing host to F.Y Farms have been lacking portable water for the past 16 years.
The CEO and founder of F.Y Danjuma Farms, Mr. Fidelis Danjuma, who provided household items to the women and writing material for school children in the community, stated that he is not just in the community to farm but to also impact the life of the people living in the community owing to the fact that they are his host.
He said: “I have been in this community and I have a farm land where I cultivate my crops rearing of livestocks. I believe in life, there is an impact one has to make in the society, Even though my motto, is Building sustainable agricultural community and brand, We don’t want to be hosted by a community and leave it the way we met it. It is our responsibility to create a lasting impact in the community.
“We believe that there’s an impact one can make so long they’re been hosted by a community”.
”One of the impact we are making today, is to support them with portable drinking water, food, writing materials for children in the community and some household items, which is our own little way of saying thanking for giving us the enabling environment to grow our crops and to also raise our life stock and to also support and impact their lives even as God has granted us the grace to do so”.
“F.Y Farms has been in existence since 2018 while I was still an undergraduate in the university, our faming then was in small scale but we started our large scale farming this year in Mai Gora town at Angwan Bashayi community, here in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa state and it has been very calm, the people here are owesome and friendly as well and we have not had any issues since we commenced farming in the community”.
The community head Mr. Augustine Bashiayi, who could not hold his excitement over the rehabilitation of the community Borehole, stated that the development will change the life of the people in no small way.
According to him, the community for a very longtime lacked portable drinking water, stating that the people staying in community for years have been drinking water from the stream in the community which is not healthy.
In his word: “We the people of Angwan Pashayi are very happy for this great gesture for years our community have lacked good drinking water, we normally go to the stream to get drinking water which isn’t good for our health”
“We have cried to the government but they didn’t come to our rescue but today, God have sent this young man to our community to provide us with good drinking water for us which the government has failed to provide and we are going to do our best to support him in this community and make sure that his business in this community will be protected because he is God sent to us”
The community women leader, Mrs. Ruth Augustine, who also spoke with Raye24reporters on behalf of the women in the community, thanked the CEO of F.Y Danjuma Farms, Mr Fidelis Danjuma, for coming to their rescue and providing portable drinking water for the community and making their Christmas celebration a memorable one by providing food items to the community.
According to Mrs Ruth, women normally go to the stream to get water to drink and to cook but since the Borehole has been fixed the community women now have access to safe and portable water, they don’t have to go to the stream again for water.
She said: ” We the women of this community are very happy because we can now enjoy our Christmas and don’t have to go to the the stream again to fetch water and sometimes, when it rains we find it difficult to get clean water from the stream and most times when we come back from farm, we are very tired going to the stream to get water for the house but now we won’t be going through such stress again”
“We want to thank this youngman that God has brought to our community, he is truly a saviour because he has saved us from a lot of things by restoring our water and God will continue to bless him and his business”
One Mr. Francis Sunday, a resident in the community, noted that the restoration of water in the community has solved a longtime problem and desire of the people because the community has been looking forward to such development in the community.
While thanking God, Mr. Francis, said that the community has been lacking some social amenities for a very long time and the restoration of water in the community, will go a long way in helping the people in the community most especially the women.
In his words: “There is this good Samaritan that God has brought to our community, we have been lacking so many things here, we have been looking for someone to bring such development to our community but we couldn’t find anyone but thank God in this year 2023, God sent Mr. Danjuma, who came to farm in our community and he is now bringing development to the community and at the same time putting a smile on the faces of the people and we appreciate his coming and his effort in the community”.
“In this community, we lack electricity, water and health care and the rest of others but in this few months, he started farming in our community, he has provided us with water that we have been lacking in the community for 15-16 years, he brought food item and writing materials for school children in the community now I strongly believe that as time goes on, he is going to provide us with other needs in the community”.
“Most youths in the community lack jobs but we believe that with time as his farm flourishes in our community he will provide us with jobs and the community youths will not be sitting idle but at least they will have something to do”. “I am happy that such a thing is happening in our community what he has done today, has brought happiness to us, most especially the women because most of them are suffering from waist pain due to how they bend to fetch water from the stream after working in the farm we are so happy for this new development in our community”, he said.
