By Karifa Kello Thoronka
Centenarians are not common in Sierra Leone in our days. Taking greater control of one’s life is an important step toward improving one’s health, but many young people care more about indulging in pleasurable lifestyles rather than taking good care of their health. Instead they pay more attention to taking harmful drugs and engaging in other anti-social activities.
Yearning for long life is a common wish by many and some might just get what they wished for in life. Pa Alhaji Musa Mansaray is now over 105 years old staying at Gwent Height, within the Wilberforce Community.
Pa Alhaji Musa Mansaray said he is extremely happy for the timely support rendered to him by the Residential Elder Care Foundation in donating food items to him with some amount of cash, maintaining that many people are seeing them as burden to humanity instead of helping them to survive.
He said they could be very good resource persons who are capable and have the abilities of telling life impacting stories to young people through which useful lessons could be learnt.
Speaking on behalf of the Foundation, the Administrative Manager of Residential Elder Care Foundation, Karifa Kello Thoronka, disclosed that they have more plans afoot for older people in the country.
“We have a plan to extend our charity work to the provinces as soon as we have the requisite funding,” he stated.
Musa Mujahedeen Kargbo is the Finance Coordinator of the Foundation. He appealed to individuals and companies to come onboard and support them in order to actualize the Foundation’s aims and objectives which are mainly geared towards properly catering for the needs of elderly people.
Kargbo concluded by thanking all those who contributed towards making their first donation recently to the elderly at Wilberforce turned out to be a success.
