The Executive Director of the Journalist Ibrahim Samura Foundation for Democracy and Good Governance, Fatmata BJ Samura has embarked on an assessment survey in some deprived communities in the country.
The survey is geared towards getting firsthand information form the people living in some of these deprived settings as to what is their most pressing need so that the foundation will be in a better position in terms of intervention.
Madam Samura disclosed that at the moment the major focus of the foundation is on education which they believe is the strongest pillar for the development of every nation.
She however noted that during the visit to these communities, other basic needs like access to pure drinking water, toilet facilities among others are of major concern couple with schooling challenges.
Highlighting some of their challenges, Madam Fatima J Bangura of Kagberay Ba Musa Lahai Village Karene District stated that they as women find it very difficult to make ends meet.
That they under go through hard jobs like carrying fire woods to sell at the headquarter town of Kamakuyie and other odd jobs to see that their children go school, adding that there is no school in the community and that their children walk 5 miles to school.
She frustratingly expressed that their little children within the age of 4, 5 and 6 cannot attend school because of the distance as they do not strengthen to cover such distance to and from the school.
Like Fatima, other people in some of these communities called on humanitarian organizations to come to their aid, especially in the area of the construction of a school in their community.
