By Bampia James Bundu
Raining Season Child Care, a local non-governmental organisation in Sierra Leone, yesterday presented food items worth Le 5 million to the social welfare ministry as contribution towards the provision of food for Ebola orphans.
The organisation’s Acting Country Director, Michael Ropiecki, said they were in the country “to give hope and protection to vulnerable children”, adding that their mission was to “provide a hopeful future and seek justice for vulnerable children and impoverished families as part of an effort to raise up a new generation that will in turn bring hope for generations to come”.
He said the organisation, which started in 2008, had as its philosophy to “…move forth in an effort to rescue the orphaned and discarded through sponsorship, to empower the dreamer through education, and to restore the broken through discipleship”.
Ropiecki said they were operating a “full time orphanage home facility for about 97 children in Freetown” and providing food items like rice, cooking oil and baby foods to support homes and care centres housing children orphaned by Ebola. He promised a continuation of such donations on a monthly basis.
Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs, Moijueh Kaikai, commended the group for their support to Ebola orphans, saying that it would go a long way to help the government.
More than 7,000 children have been infected in the three Mano River Union countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea and at least 1,200 have died, according to United Nations.
© Politico 18/12/14
