BY: PROBLYN J. ALPHA
The Living Health and Education foundation Kono branch with support from the North Middlesex university hospital and the Emmanuel Pentecostal Church in London decided to feed pupils of the Koidu School for the blind at a ceremony held at the school compound D.O barracks in Koidu City.
Making a statement before the feeding ceremony a trustee of living health and education foundation, Jonathan Tamba Moiwa maintained that the foundation was at the aforementioned school compound to meet to the needs of the children. He said they decided to feed the children because it is their felt need and noting that the foundation being a religious tolerant organization made provision for both the Christian and Muslim children during the month of Ramadan.
According to him they decided to target the blind children because they are the most vulnerable category of disables in the district and the world as a whole adding that unlike the other sighted disables that cannot go around begging for their daily bread.
Mr. Tutus intimated the audience that the foundation has afoot line up interventions for the children and therefore thanked the Tankoro Chiefdom for offering at least three acres of land to the foundation. He assured all of the judicious uses of the land in the future.
Whilst outlining the following as the intervention of the foundation: nutrition, education and health, Jonathan Tamba Tutu thanked the founder of the foundation Madam Fatmata Mansaray, the North Middlesex University Hospital and the Emmanuel Pentecostal Church in London for their good will gesture in making the feeding and their pervious interventions a success in the district and implored them to do more as the reward for hard or good work is more work. He encouraged the children to feel belong as all is not lost.
The Head Teacher, Philip Deen Sesay pointed out that both Mr. Jonathan Tamba Tutu and Madam Fatmata Mansaray are household names in Kono District for feeding the less privileged and people living with disabilities. He described the feeding ceremony as a way of emulating Jesus Christ who fed five thousand people. Mr. Sesay further pleaded with the foundation for the provision of more food, teaching and learning materials in order to transform the lives of the pupils.
On his part Chief Tamba Moiwa in Tankoro Chiefdom Kono District foremost lauded the interventions of the foundation in the district and therefore disclosed that his chiefdom authorities have freely offered at least three acres of land to the foundation to be used for the betterment of the beneficiary children. Chief Moiwa implored the children to treat their academic work seriously as with quality education there is ability in disability.
Meanwhile, on behalf of their colleague beneficiaries of the feeding ceremony Kallie Turay and Marian Fayiah of Koidu School for the blind noted that this was not the first time Living health and Education foundation is giving them food. They underscored the feeding ceremony as the importance of it cannot be over emphasized as it always make them feel belong in the society irrespective of their disabilities.
“ We really appreciate the feeding ceremony especially a time like this when even the sighted finds it very difficult to put food on the table talk less of us who are blind,” they said.
Both of them seized the opportunity to appeal to their benefactors and other humanitarian individuals and organizations to do similar gesture as food, teaching and learning materials are the felt needs at the Koidu School for the blind in Kono District. Eating and dancing to gospel music climaxed the said feeding ceremony.
