By Henry T. Kargbo
A cross section of the Coalition for Change (C4C) party members including parliamentary candidates Western Area Urban and Rural Area who contested in 2018 Thursday 21st May, 2020 made a donation of assorted food items including bags of rice and cooking oil to vulnerable communities across the sixteen district in the country for and on behalf of the C4C Diaspora focus group based in United Kingdom.
Sahr Nyama who formed part of the donation, said their party’s gestures to the people at this material time comes in to complement the efforts made by C4C members in the diaspora to support venerable and less privilege at home.
The C4C donations targeted pupils of the Milton Margai School for the Blind on Wilkinson Road in West of Freetown, King George Old Peoples Home at Grafton in the Western Rural District and different parts of the country.
As for the two beneficiary groups at Wilkinson Road and at Grafton, the assorted food items included eight bags of rice, one bag of onions, two boxes of maggie, ten bundles of Grafton pure water, a gallon of oil, carton of tomatoes and face marks to pupils of the Milton Margai School for the Blind to each group of beneficiary.
Making the donation, to the two groups at different locations, the chairman of the C4C party, Abu Bakarr Santo Bangura encouraged both groups people to accept the items in good faith, though it is a little one but the C4C diaspora wings sees the beneficiaries as worthy recipients of the items.
He said the donation came as a result of the coronavirus pandemic hit in the country and that their party cannot set back to see these less privilege in need of such assistances without helping them.
Receiving the items from C4C party, Headmaster of the Milton Margai School for the Blind Salliu Turay said the donation was timely as they received it at a time when the country is grappling with a strange lethal disease. He said pupils at the blind school are also in dire need of such support especially after the fire incident that engulfed their campus on 29th April, 2020.
Turay therefore registered his profound appreciations for the gesture and thanked the C4C party for their kindness in a trying time like this, adding that after the incident the school has been struggling to keep the blind pupils live a comfortable life due to the lack of other necessities and things that will keep them in a good manner, thus stressed that with this gesture “we thank you once more.”
Similarly receiving the assorted food items the Manager at the King George Old Peoples’ Home Madam Christiana John thanks the C4C party for such donation saying that it was very important because the aged will have enough food to eat.
The donations were mobilized with support from C4C diaspora members namely; Aluoiue Macfoy, Claude Kajue, Ahmed Holand, Ahmed Atlante, Aliue Iscandri, Tamba Gbonie, Aiah Fanday and Bob Deen. Also part of funds mobilizers for the donations back home were Tamba Gbamoi, Tamba Sinnah, Kelvin Metzeger, Sahr Nyaama and Santos.
