COVID-19: 507 Kwara communities to benefit from FG’s Rapid Response Scheme

No fewer than 507 communities in Kwara State will benefit from the federal government’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Scheme.

Head of Operations, Coordinating Unit of the National Social Safety-nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO) in the state, Taiye Iliasu, disclosed this following the conclusion of its sensitisation programme on COVID-19 Rapid Response Register (RRR) in the state held in Kosuboso, the headquarters of Baruten Local Government Area.

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According to him, the process of registering beneficiaries for the project will involve deployment of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code and broadcasting of Short Messaging Service (SMS) to cell-phones in all eligible communities.