As is the case throughout the world, COVID-19 is having a terribly negative impact on the lives of Sierra Leoneans. There are now many children who have lost their parents to the pandemic and are now known as COVID-19 orphans. A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa is helping these children to survive.
We sent additional funding to Sierra Leone to feed these children and our funding was used to purchase:
bags of rice; bags of onions, cartons of Maggie; gallons of vegetable oil and gallons of palm oil.
We also provided: school bags; dozens of notebooks, pens, and pencils; sets of textbooks and uniforms. The children were also in need of these items which we were also able to provide bathing soap; laundry soap; face masks; vitamins and basic medicines.
Our beneficiaries have said that this program was timely and has been a lifesaving move to ease entrenched hardship of the neediest. Responses of recipients indicate a timely response and the Ministry of Social Welfare who supervised the process confirmed the inability of government to reach all their targeted beneficiaries. So, A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa needs to help. We need to fill these gaps.
Our plan is to extend the feeding program to these orphanages because majority of this children have resorted to be enrolled in this orphanage school. And we wish to say thank you for providing funding to help A Brighter Tomorrow expand its reach during this difficult time for Sierra Leone and the world.
Like so many other countries around the globe, Sierra Leone has been hard hit by COVID-19. And, as is the case with so many other countries, the schools in Sierra Leone have been forced to close.
This was mandated in March and A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa Foundation (BTA) had to adjust. As we did during the times of Ebola when people were mandated to quarantine, we moved our feeding programmes out of the four schools in which we work and began sending food to the villages where the children live.
We’ve been delivering rations of food for the children’s families to cook over the past few months and we’ve also sent over funding for masks and medical supplies to help combat COVID-19 in this extremely impoverished country without a true health system in place for responding to the pandemic.
Highlights we wish to share:
Thank you for your continued support as the world is a such a challenging place for all of us – particularly those in countries like Sierra Leone.
Godly Seed is one of the four school feeding programmes that we support. We’ve received a report from the that A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa (BTA) has highly impacted their lives and has been a source of encouragement and motivation in many ways.
Thank you as always for your support!
A REPORT FROM GODLY SEED SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME
The feeding program is improving the lives of the children at the Godly Seed School. The staff there have been evaluating and monitoring their progress and are seeing great improvements in health and in the number of children who come to school.
A Recent Story: One young girl in class one at the school fell very ill with tuberculosis. The school immediately intervened for her wellbeing to ensure she was nourished and would receive proper medical care. Rev. Angie Myles, who runs the A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa (BTA) chool Feeding Programme at Godly Seed, made sure she was admitted to the hospital, treated and then released to the care of Rev. Angie and the school.
Rev. Angie and the school supervised her care and nutrition program and she is now doing great! With the help of the school and our nutritious BTA meal programme, she has recovered completely.
Thank you to those who help to fund A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa for the support provided to nourish these children and help save lives.
A darling young boy who lost his two parents during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone was discovered by the Ben Hirsch staff during a visit to one of the communities called Perrifefewabu where the epidemic seriously hurt so many people. Most of the children were displaced in the village so the Ben Hirsch staff brought him to the interim care center for some time and later on he was fostered to one of the foster parents.
Through the intervention of BTA through Ben Hirsch he is now living happily with his foster parent and doing do well. We are sharing two photographs so you can see the difference our program has made in his life – and the life of hundreds of other children!
Please see “Before BTA” and “After.” You are making such a difference! Thank you again and again.
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