A New York City pastor has pledged to give $50,000 (N25M) to rebuild an orphanage in conflict-devastated Plateau State, which housed about 150 children, many of whom were orphaned by previous Boko Haram and bandits attacks until the building was burned down herdsmen.
“Thank God the … children were evacuated prior to the destruction by these demonic terrorists,” says the Facebook page of Pastor Bill Devlin, who has committed to donating $50,000 to rebuild the orphanage. Devlin, co-pastor of Infinity Bible Church in South Bronx, New York, identifies himself as an “international humanitarian in the war zones.”
The Binta orphanage in Jos area, the only orphanage supported by a U.S. nonprofit, the Religious Freedom Coalition, was destroyed on Monday.
The staff and children are safe, the coalition’s founder, the Rev. William Murray, was quoted as saying. “The 147 kids were evacuated to Jos,” he said.
Plateau State Coordinator of the Association of Orphanage and Home Operators in Nigeria (ASOHON), Daniel Asama disclosed that the Binta Orphanage Home in Jebbu-Miango Bassa Local Government Area was razed down by suspected armed herdsmen.
He narrated that he got a distress call three days ago from the coordinator of the Orphanage, Joshua Choji Dickson intimating him of the security situation in the community adding that the Coordinator of the Home took a wise decision by evacuating the children before militias stormed the orphanage home.
And I am telling you that no sooner had these children were evacuated than the assailants came, attacked and razed down the Orphanage as you can see.”
“We thank God that no life was lost in this Orphanage home except those we lost in the community.
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