Disabled get land at Lungi

As a way to boost the physically challenged in Sierra Leone, The Disabled International Foundation Sierra Leone’s (DIF-SL) Executive Director, Imambay Kadie Kamara (in photo) has secured two acres of land in the Lungi community, Kafu Bullum Chiefdom northern, Sierra Leone for the construction of a recreational centre for the physically challenged.

Speaking to Sierra Express Media in an interview, Imambay Kadie Kamara said that the organization was formed in 2008 to respond to the hard time challenges and maltreatment the disabled face in their every day life. She said they became an NGO in 2011 and they have been rendering different kinds of help and support to different groups of disabled persons across the country.

She said DIF-SL is operating on five thematic areas which include education, smaller medium Enterprise, Livelihood, Advocacy, and Skills Promotion. She furthered that accomplishment of those thematic areas prompted her to buy two acres of land to establish a recreation centre for the disabled and the less privileged in the country, a project she said would last till the end of 2013.

The centre, she said, will host a mosque, church, school, skills training centre, hospital and other facilities, adding that a target of disabled persons from places like PWD centre at Pademba road, Grafton, Waterloo, Lungi and the disabled closer to Crown bakery at Wilberforce street have been included.

Imambay Kadie Kamara concluded by saying that Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world as one child out of three dies before the age of six which explains clearly that the provision of medical care is extensively poor towards disabled women.

She said persons with disabilities living in poverty often have no say over decisions that affect their lives and livelihood.

DIF-SL, she said, is currently engaged in helping disabled persons as those with disabilities are being marginalised because of their status. She said they are working with such groups to ensure that they have the means to enjoy equal access to jobs and essential services by which they can be given the supported they needed.

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