By Abubakarr Harding
The Zulu-Mandingo Charity Foundation presented 500 Christmas gifts to orphanage children within the age bracket of 1 to 10 years on Christmas Eve, 24th December, 2022.
Five Christmas packages were distributed to five (5) disabled boys and girls during their visit to the Cheshire Orphanage Home at Race Road in the East End of Freetown.
A 16-year-old girl named “Blessed Cheshire,” one of the five youngsters at the Cheshire Home, delivered a brief remark after accepting the gifts on behalf of his inmates.
She said, “We thank the Zulu-Mandingo Charity Foundation for providing these gifts to us. We pray that as we receive the gifts in joy, the lord will make your heart fill with joy. We say thank you.”.
Mariatu Kargbo, a worker of the Cheshire Home, during her welcome statement, praised and thanked God for bringing the Charity Foundation at this time. She revealed how currently the Home has 12 kids but most had gone for the holidays to their relatives while the remaining were five in number and they were fortunate to receive the gifts presented.
She further informed that among the children that they met in the Home; three of them have lost their parents and had nowhere to go. Those children are between the ages of 10 to 16 namely Jane Cheshire (11), Blessed Kallon Cheshire (16), Natalia Cheshire and Abdulia Cheshire (10).
Another Orphanage Home visited was the “House of Place” located within the Low-cost Community in the East End of Freetown. At the Home, 10 children at the ages of 10 to 14 years old were given each a Christmas package including other gifts. 180 packages were also distributed to more than one hundred and eighty children at the back of 5-10 hotel within the Kissy community.
The Home Manager, Kumba Abiodu Christiana N’gauja, thanked the Zulu-Mandingo Charity Foundation for their kind gesture in offering gifts to the children in the Home during Christmas Eve and other holidays which included biscuits and Christmas play toys.
Aminata Lamin Yahffa and team of the Charity Foundation stated that the essence of dishing out the gifts was to show love to vulnerable kids in those Orphanage homes and other street children who do not have the opportunity to live happily during the holidays.
She explained that even her husband’s desire was against the backdrop or rationale of himself having undergone the same struggles like those helpless children when he was a kid.
According to her, with the Motto: “When You Smile, We Smile”, she said the gifts were targeted to benefit 500 kids in the East End and rural areas of Freetown.
