Vision:Lifee.V. (VLeV) on 23rd March, 2019 donated school materials and scholarships as school support to 26 pupils in Leicester and Portee communities in Freetown. Recipients of the award included fifteen girls and eleven boys at primary, junior and senior secondary school levels.
Vision:Lifee.V. (VLeV) is a non-profitable charity organization headed and managed by Dr. Lucy Tengbeh, Yeama Bangalie, Christopher Hudec and Christoph Ende in Germany. They and others engaged members and donors are focused on supporting education for under-privileged children in Sierra Leone.
The bulk of the support was allocated to the purchase of textbooks, uniforms and other school materials. A few of the pupils who are in private schools have to pay school fees for which their own allocations went towards the payment of their fees.
Presenting the scholarships, Ms. Emily Tengbeh and Mrs. Rosaline Mcarthy, who are implementing the program in Sierra Leone, admonished the pupils to be studious to give others the opportunity in future and appealed to parents to monitor their children and wards to produce excellent results that would encourage the donors to do more.
Partners/organizations are manifesting their interest in investing in the human capital development of the nation through their philanthropic initiatives.
Ms. Emily Tengbeh and Mrs. Rosaline Macarthy commended the donors for the According to Mrs. Rosaline Macarthy, the philanthropists began their journey of assistance in Sierra Leone in 2017/2018 by supporting two schools at Leicester and Portee communities with school materials, renovation of toilets at the school in Portee and award of scholarships to 9 pupils in both schools.
This second round of support has come at a time when the Government is implementing its flagship project, the Free Quality Education Program; it is a good sign that other invaluable gesture which they underscored would complement government’s Free Quality Education and prayed that God richly bless them.
