The presentation held at the Helping Lodge in the Fass community, is part of the charity’s sponsorship activities, which is also based in North Bank Region, in providing a 50kg bag of rice to every sponsored child’s family.
The package for the 91 bags, worth D200, 200, are meant for sponsored students, who are currently attending the Fass Basic Cycle School.
Also, the charity seeks to work with local communities on ways to improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged children through education and welfare.
At the presentation, Sajor Sarr, Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, said that they sponsored different schools both in the North and South Bank Region.
He also informed that they also provide monthly allowance to Osborne Helping Nursery and Chamen Bai Dam Helping Nursery School, their two sponsored nursery schools as part of their feeding programme in NBR.
He thus applauded the parents for their support in sending their children to school and further urged parents to assist their children in their educational pursuit especially after school hours.
Karamo Manjang, Helping Charity sponsorship coordinator, revealed that their sponsorship is based on merit and with different categories including students with excellence, students from poor families and those who have lost a parent.
“Every year, we expect each child to write a thank you letter with his or her exams report, because at the end of the day, these are what we compile and send to the sponsors in the United Kingdom for them to know the performance of the child in school.”
That he added, serves as a motivation to the sponsors, noting that their sponsorship ranges from nursery to tertiary or university level.
On behalf of the beneficiaries, Ajara Lowe, a mother of two sponsored daughters, applauded the management of the organisation for their laudable support to their children.
The sponsorship, she added, has come to them as blessing in disguise especially in educating their children, saying as parents, they would have found it difficult to pay for their children’s education in view of the harsh economic realities in the country.
She also spoke about the timely receipt of their children’s annually sponsorship package, noting that the organisation never removed a dime from the sponsorship package sent from the sponsors in the United Kingdom.
On the donation of the rice, Lowe stated; “Just this morning, due to circumstances, I had to borrow some cups of rice from the shopkeeper to cook today’s lunch for the family, but with this bag of rice, it will take us a long away in feeding our family.”
