By Timothy Ferenkeh Koroma
Vulnerable Charity Foundation Sierra Leone a nonprofits organization working with disable and vulnerable people in Koinadugu and Falaba district has been awarded for it contribution to humanity by the National Humanitarian Service Organization.
The organization is currently helping in improving the welfare of vulnerable women and girls more especially mentally insane woman and girls by washing them, feeding and give them medical support through a mental health nurse.
The organization presently have 50 women and 20 children that are on the street and 35 at home and 5 children in school whom got affected because of their mothers breast according to Mrs Kadiatu Bankolay Sesay Founder and Director.
She revealed that, presently they have 5 pregnant women that are mentally insane and they have just lost a newborn baby that a mentally challenged woman gave birth to at night outside the house. He said that because people don’t value mentally insane people, the lady gave birth herself and killed the child at Mongo Bendugu.
As an organization with no resources for now they only wash mentally insane and provide them with clothes for which she appealed for help as they have acquired a land but needed funding to construct a house to host them especially for the mentally insane women who continue to be sexually harassed by men at night in the process impregnated and abandoned them while some of them died as a result of cold.
The Vulnerable Charity Foundation Sierra Leone (VCF-SL) was founded on the 15th September 2019 in Kabala, Koinadugu District by Mrs Kadiatu Bankolay Sesay, with the aimed of alleviating poverty and promote the standard of living for mentally challenged people more especially women and girls.
VCF-SL took into consideration that the aftermath’s of the 10 years of civil war, the EBOLA health hazard and now the covid-19 pandemic has systematically left a negative land mark deeping improvement and a total blow to the economic status of the state said Mrs Kadiatu Bankolay Sesay.
She added that the move should be seen as an aid in complementing government effort to battle against the suffering of mentally insane women and girls to see them enjoy equal opportunities of obtaining a better life fully participating in social activities and obtaining good care irrespective of mental health status in society.