By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON)
Ibrahim Nelson Children’s Foundation (INCF) with support from Tot Kamara has completed a day’s Sensitization on precautionary measures of Corona Virus (Covid-19) to youths, traders, civil servants, and other residents of the Makeni Municipality, Bombali District, Northern Sierra Leone.
The education and charitable organization (INCF) together with Executive members of the Traders Union, Journalists and representatives of the Makeni City Council started the sensitization at the central business area of Makeni and moved it to Police Stations, Political Party Offices, Motor Bike Riders, Ataya Bases, Schools and concludes the day’s activity at some Radio Stations in the city.
They delivered several preventive messages about best practices people should put into practice to help them stay safe from the Covid-19 scourge and also donated items such as loaf of soaps, masks, gloves and sets of veronica rubbers while INCF’s Desmond Farma, demonstrated publicly how to wash hands as recommended by the Ministry of Health which was duly acknowledged by market women and other present at the scene.
Both the Regional Chairman of the Sierra Leone Traders Union North, Gibril Amitab Kamara and MCC’s Development and Planning Officer Maurite George Ellie, expressed satisfaction and thanked the Ibrahim Nelson Children’s Foundation for being the first among many organizations, MDAs and corporate institutions in Makeni to embark on such a philanthropic venture for the general good.
Speaking on behalf of various recipients of the donated items, the Bombali District Bike Riders Union Organizing Secretary, Abdulai Kamara and Superintendent MG-Kamara, the Support Officer of the Sierra Leone Police attached at the Rogbaneh Division, on behalf of their organizations extended positive reception to INCF for donating loaf of soaps, veronica buckets, gloves and masks to them noting that such items will not only keep their personnel safe but will also promote hand washing a key hygiene practice that complements Government’s efforts to keeping Sierra Leoneans and all in inhabitants in the country safe and healthy from the global pandemic (Covid19).
“With the help of our chief sponsor, Mr. Tot Kamara, a philanthropist based in the United States of America, we will continue to prioritize and render a range of humanitarian assistances to Children, less privileged people and to chip in with every little support we can provide in needy times like this,” Ibrahim Nelson Kamara, INCF’s Founder and Director assured.
Going further Mr. Kamara urged all residents within and outside of Makeni to apply the recommended precautionary measures of preventing Corona Virus-19 by the Government of Sierra Leone and the World Health Organization to continue to ensure hygienic practices are promoted in their homes, offices and public places to help combat the trending global plague.
