Former
Presidential Affairs Minister and President of the Sabally Leadership Academy
(SLA), Momodou Sabally, has donated hand-washing buckets and detergents to the
Gambia Association of the Deaf and hard of hearing (GADHOH) in a bid to help
the differently abled community to also protect themselves from the current
COVID19 pandemic.
Handing
over the gifts to the Development Officer of GADHOH, Lamin Ceesay, Mr. Sabally
told the leadership of the Organisation that his intervention is a show of
solidarity for people with disabilities since both Islam and Christianity
emphasize the importance of communal living and being each other’s keepers.
“These items have been provided by the Sabally Leadership Academy, to support
the work that GADHOH is doing to help thousands of members of your organisation
who are all Gambians like us and deserve our attention, respect and support at
all times in the interest of building an inclusive society.”
Receiving
the donated items, Mr. Lamin Ceesay, The Development officer for GADHOH, who
also doubles as President of The Gambia Deaf Sports Association (GDSA), commended Mr Sabally for his
benevolent gesture, noting that this was the first intervention his
organisation received since the genesis of the Coronavirus pandemic.
He
used the opportunity to assert that disabled persons need support in many ways
including sustenance given the current partial lockdown the country is going
through.
Established
in 2015, Sabally Leadership Academy (SLA) is a youth mentorship foundation
aimed at educating, instructing and inspiring youths for self-fulfillment and
positive contribution towards community development and national progress.
SLA
is built upon the founder’s philosophy as expounded in his self-help book
“Instant Success: Ten Keys to Personal Achievement” and other books on positive
thinking, self-fulfillment and patriotism authored by Momodou Sabally.