By Millicent Senava Mannah
The Partnering to serve Humanity has climaxed the 12 days hot meal program to 368 fire victims at Kolleh Town and distributed packages to help the victims re-start their lives. This event was held on the 8th March 2022, at the disaster ground in Kolleh Town in Freetown.
The Partnering to serve Humanity is consisted of four different entities (Caritas Sierra Leone, Tzi Chi, Healey International Relief Foundation, and Lanyi Foundation) all working collectively to render relief to disaster victims and vulnerable people in the country.
According to the Executive Director, Rev Father Peter Konteh, the packages include food items, blankets, cooking items including pots, stoves etc, bags and other school items and monies for lunch for school going pupils which will last them for over six months.
He continued that after disasters the victims lost their properties including their cooking utensils adding that it is difficult for them to cope with life which is why they decided to be serving them hot meal for a given period of time.
He maintained that they have been providing food for a period of 12 days to the victims on a daily basis which ended yesterday.
The Executive Director stated that the philosophy of Caritas and Partnering to serve Humanity is they are the first to respond and they don’t go immediately after the issue is out of the media stating that they continue to help the community to build up structures that will enable them to develop themselves.
The Councillor commended the aforementioned organizations for their charitable work in his constituency stating that their intervention is timely.
The Councillor advised the victims to handle the package well as they start their lives again further requesting that the organization continue to advocate for the victims in order to make their lives comfortable again.
Mahawa Kamara one of the victims, who spoke on behalf of others, expressed gratitude to the Partnering to serve Humanity for coming to their aid during this crisis time in their lives adding that the organization has put smiles on their faces again.
The event was climaxed with the distribution of the package to various households of the fire victims.
