Religious Leaders Task Force on Ebola distributes food and non food items to quarantined homes and disabled

The task force that was formed in June last year started its history with Ebola related sensitization, fasting and prayers throughout the country. It trained well over 500 religious leaders of both faiths on Ebola in the South East and in the Western Area in July and August last year.

With the support of World Vision from mid December 2014 to early January 2015 the task force embarked on distribution of food and non food items to quarantined homes donated by some mosques, churches, faith based organizations and individual Sierra Leonean Muslims and Christians.

So far it has successfully distributed the food items worth millions of Leones in the western area to kissy road, Dibiyah Water, Grafton and Jui areas respectively.

Moyamba and Port Loko also received their own share of the items.

The chairman of the task force, Bishop Yambasu of the United Methodist Church in the handing over ceremony of the items in the presence of NERC coordinators: “Ebola is a national epidemic that kills our people across the board regardless of region or religion and it must be dealt with in the same manner. Government alone cannot do it without our help”, he said.

The distribution was supervised by officials of the Interreligious Council of Sierra Leone (IRCSL) namely Sheikh Abu Bakar Conteh, Alhaji U.N.S. Jah, Professor Baba Tunde Karim, Hajiahs Saminatu and Halima Abudullah, Rev. Speck, Rev. Sutton Koroma, Mrs Ebom James, Rev. Alimamy Kargbo, Shekh Alhassan Kargbo and others.

BY Sheikh Alie Kallay

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