Bombali Deaf Development Association holds Maiden Planning Meeting

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson 

With fund from their CEO Unisa Kamara, who’s currently based in the U.S, the Bombali District Deaf Development Association on Saturday held their maiden planning meeting since the organization was established six years ago.

The meeting took place at the premises of Pastoral Center on Teko Road in the northeastern regional city of Makeni, where cross section of non-governmental organization for hearing impaired persons in the district had converged to update their leadership about their sufferings and jointly mapped out their strategic plans for the current year and succeeding ones.

During the meeting, which was chaired by the organization’s Prediction Mr. Abdulrahman Barrie, he told members that the C.E.O of the Bombali District Deaf Development Association has sent in the sum of NLE 2,000 to facilitate for members to converge, deliberate, and plan together for the better.

During the engagement, attendees of the meeting highlighted on a number of concerns and suggestions to broaden their scope including plans to draft and send letters of partnerships to government, agencies and departments, other line ministries like the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities-(NCPD), Sierra Leone Disability Union-(SLeDU), as well as non-governmental organization and philanthropists.

They also spoke about the need to urgently secure an office space to establish their secretariat where some of their elite members will regularly converge to continue to work tirelessly for the general good of their members.

Many other burning issues disturbing their membership, especially the illiterate ones were also discussed and action points were taken into cognizance.

Members were also advised to make themselves useful by embracing both formal and non-formal education, and attendees agreed to enhance the swift adherence of the advice by way of letting them be able to achieve their long term dreams of improving and developing hearing impaired persons in Bombali District and by extension nationwide.