By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson)
Newly established charitable and
education foundation, Child Rights and You Educational Foundation Sierra Leone
has on Wednesday June 15, 2020 respectively donated assorted items to school
going children in Makorombo and Kabombeh village in the Bombali District,
northern part of Sierra Leone.
The items donated includes, Chinese
lights, batteries and lumps of soaps which are meant to help solve the light
problem and hand-washing problems the beneficiaries are faced with.
In his welcome address, Albert an elderly indigene of Makoromabo village welcomed members of CRY-EFSL and all present at the donation ceremony and thus offered prayers for all and sundry.
Augustine Mansaray, the Executive
Secretary of Child Rights and You Educational Foundation Sierra Leone in a
brief statement introduced members of the foundation and briefly stressed that
the two villages, Kabombeh and Makorombo are amongst the most challenged and
less privileged communities in Bombali District, the reason why CRY-EFSL is
providing support to 31 children from the two neighboring villages.
“This is just a start and I’m very
pleased to associate myself and our foundation with these distinguished
villages of highly peaceful residents. Edwin A.J Turay, the Founder and Chief
Executive Officer of CRY-EFSL remarked.
“Some 20 years ago, a descendant
from Mile 91, Yoni Chiefdom in the Tonkolili District now residing and working
in Makeni city in the Bombali District education was hampered as a result of
the 11 years civil interregnum that griped Yoni. That person is me standing
here today to donate to young and promising children in Makorombo and Kabombeh
village through CRY-EFSL as a way of fulfilling my age long desire to serve
humanity by a way of giving to the destitute and challenged groups mostly children
the bed rocks and would be administrations of various works of lives in our
dearest country, Sierra Leone. Edwin said in a motivating tone.
He further revealed that CRY-EFSL
will be providing advocacy and counseling services to all 31 beneficiaries of
its maiden project. We will through our Education and Outreach Officer,
partners and other members of the foundation be monitoring, supply additional
batteries for their lights, replace them should they provide changeable stories
why they may need other lights among other supports in store for these children
as our foundation develop.
While receiving the items, Adama
Conteh, on behalf of other beneficiaries told Journalists that: “the donation
from Child Rights and You Educational Foundation Sierra Leone is a stitch in
hand that will save nine with special emphasis on how appreciative herself and
others are to CRY-EFSL for intervening to end the light crisis in their homes
which has been preventing them to be able to study at night”.
She further called on Government and other organizations to come to their villages to assist them in diverse ways at the same time they assured the foundation that their colleagues who are also school going children in classes 6, JSS3 and SSS3 will use the lights and soaps for it intended purpose.
The day’s event was climaxed by chanting and praise singing by parents of the beneficiaries and other residents of the two communities who witnessed the ceremony as a way appreciating Child Rights and You Educational Foundation Sierra Leone for the donation, a common practice by the residents of Kambobeh and Makorombo villages who are strict followers of their Limba culture.
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