April 9, 2021
By Ilyasa Baa
Reports reaching A-Z newspaper indicate that five hundred women belonging to Productive Women Sierra Leone are to benefit from NaCSA support. Over sixty spaces were allocated by the Sierra Leone Police for enlistment and some other eighty members of the organization were employed for the on-going Mid Term Population and Housing Census.
According to the founder and Chairman of the Productive Women Sierra Leone, Prince Coker, the membership has risen to three million having existed for one year. He said his action to form such group was borne out of his desire to assist women whom he described as being vulnerable in society. “The women should not be left out in terms of everything”, he said, noting that through the organization a lot of women have already benefited.
“With the support of His Excellency President Maada Bio and the Vice President Juldeh Jalloh, more of them will benefit as soon as possible”, Coker intimated.
He commended the government and the role played by Ambassador Bond Wurie who is a Special Representative of the President to the Productive Women’s organization, noting that their open door policy has positively impacted the lives of women across the country.
He said Productive Women Sierra Leone is grassroot based and non-partisan with over eighty percent of the members being illiterate from hard to reach communities across the regions of Sierra Leone. Membership, he said, is free and non partisan and even tribal.
A member of the Productive Women Sierra Leone, Adama Koroma said the formation of this group has brought light at the end of the tunnel for them as single parents. She said they are happy to get a new body of patriotic Sierra Leoneans to speak on their behalf and trying to respond to their concerns. She expressed hope that the founder and team of concerned Sierra Leoneans would continue to bring more goodies for them like the MUNAFU package and the Hajj pilgrimage opportunity.
The Productive Women Sierra Leone is currently run by a board which is constrained but managing with the little resources they put together for administrative, transportation and other related expenditures for the progress of the organization. Four million women are being targeted nationwide.