The Kolu Sokodolo Foundation (KSF), a local humanitarian organisation that has been providing assistance to vulnerable citizens of Liberia since 2016, has built a home for an 80-year-old woman, Watchen Jimmy, who had slept with rats and cockroaches in a shack.
Development Diaries gathered that the woman had slept on an unplastered floor in the Sugar Hill Community in Paynesville, outside Monrovia, for a little over two decades.
It was learnt that the foundation also provided a mattress, bag of rice, cooking, washing, and eating utensils, and other household materials, including tubs, buckets, and gallon, to the aged Liberian.
The Country Director of the organisation, Monue Shine Gbelemah, commended the Chief Financier, Mrs Kolu Sokodolo Walters, and other donors for their immense contributions towards the actualisation of the project.
He said that the gesture was intended to dignify the living condition of madam Jimmy.
He said, ‘We want to extend thanks to our partners and our sponsors for erecting this building to this stage. We were here a week ago and we saw that the structure was very indecent for our mother and grandmother. And so, the Kolu Sokodolo Children’s Foundation moved in. Today, you can see the structure of the building and everything you think about, we [have] placed it in here for mother Jimmy’.
Gbelemah promised that the foundation will shoulder the medical bills of madam Jimmy and continue to provide her food and other basic assorted items.
Responding, Madam Jimmy said, ‘…[T]oday, my house [is] looking like a human being’s house. I am happy and, so, I tell you people thank you plenty’.
Gbelemah called on citizens or groups, including philanthropists and humanitarian organisations, to come to the aid of Liberian mothers that are in need.
Source: Front Page Online
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