By Foday Moriba Conteh
As part of their support to complement the Government’s Free Quality Education initiative in the country, the Mary Scott Charity Foundation that supports less privileged children has on Friday 8th January, 2021 donated learning materials, which include school bags, books, pens, pencils etc, worth millions of Leones to the St. Philips Primary School on Patton Street in Freetown. The donation took place within the school compound. After the items were donated to the school, the authorities of the school then offered them to the children who were the ultimate beneficiaries.
Handing over the donation, the Founder/President of the Mary Scott Charity Foundation, Mary Scott, disclosed that she is an ex-pupil of St. Philips Primary School years back, adding that as an ex-pupil she thought it incumbent on her to undertake such a donation, doing so with the strong conviction that such will touch or positively impact lives especially at this decisive moment when COVID-19 has created economic dislocations.
She added that the donation of the school items to these children is a fulfillment of the vision of the organization even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world.
She inspired the beneficiaries to take their studies serious underscoring how education is the key to success. “Education is a process of learning that one goes through in order to become somebody in society,” she told them.
Mary Scott implored them to make good use of the items the organization has offered in order to achieve their dreams and become great people in society who will in return give back to society as she is currently doing.
She further admonished them to adhere to all the precautionary measures that the Government and its partners have put in place in order not to contract the corona virus also underscoring that it is only when strict adherence is maintained that all could stay safe.
Receiving the donated items, a teacher of the school expressed appreciation to the Mary Scott Charity Foundation for the gesture which she described as not only important but very timely i.
She admonished beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity of attending school saying many other children want such an opportunity further reiterating that with education they will achieve their dreams and become great people in society.
One of the beneficiaries, Alhaji Umaru Barrie a Class 5 pupil extended gratitude to the Mary Scott Charity Foundation for the kind gesture which he graciously said was not only important but very timely in the midst of COVID-19 in the country. He maintained that with this kind of gesture such will ease the constraints which there are facing to purchase school or learning materials for them.
