By Fatmata Bundu
FREETOWN, June 24 (232News) – Realsalonean Children’s Foundation (RCF) has been launched by making donation to the Milton Margai School for the Blind.
The launching which took place at the school grounds on the 19th June, 2021 took the form of charity and fundraising event geared towards supporting the Milton Margai School for the blind.
The Founder of Realsalonean Children’s Foundation (RCF), Frederick Tarawallie, disclosed that they established the foundation in Sierra Leone to provide food, supplies, and education to children in need.
He said their Mission is to work in partnership with organizations, children, and communities to create meaningful changes by supporting community development and promoting children’s health, education, human rights, and overall wellbeing.
Their Vision is to be building a global community with compassion, love, and eliminating poverty where children and humans have the opportunity to reach their full potential with basic human necessities.
According to the Founder, their Values includes: value of children’s health and education, value the rights of every human, value respect, they believe in empowering and developing communities and work in partnership to promote accountability and transparency.
“Growing up in poverty, children face tough challenges: hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and medical services, social discrimination, and isolation. But with support from people like you, we can help children get the health care, education, life skills, job-readiness training, and confidence they need to create lasting change in their lives and communities. Together, we can end poverty for good.”
He pointed out that millions of children are separated from their families, living in orphanages or on the streets.
That many survive with substandard care, unloved and at risk, all of them dreaming of a family.
In the worst cases, these environments expose children to devastating abuse and psychological trauma, creating adults who are 10x more likely to become sex workers and 50x more likely to be in prison.
“We know the very best thing for a child is to be part of a loving family, it’s where they thrive. That’s why everything we do as an organization is designed to accomplish just that. We believe that together, we can change the way we care for children and help to get them into stable, loving, nurturing environments.”
The Founder emphasized that they believed in partnerships, and with generous gifts from people, they can make their dream of living with a family a reality.
RCF whose motto is “Saving the lives of poor children” donated assorted food items such as rice, tomato paste, sugar, onions, pam and vegetable oil, and clothing worth millions of Leones.
The launching of RCF coincided with the 65th celebration of the Milton Margai School for the Blind.
The Chairperson of the ceremony, Doreen Barrie quoted William Blake, an English Poet, Painter, and Printmaker who once referred to children as “the greatest endowment given to men by God” because “when all is lost, the child brings happiness”.
She said children supposed to be a source of happiness and blessing to the family, community, and the nation, but when they are badly nurtured due to neglect and lack of proper care for their development they instead become liability and menace to the entire society.
“It therefore behooves all of us to play a part in helping to mold their character so that they could meaningfully contribute to national development.”
Head Teacher Milton Margai School for the Blind, Salieu Turay commended the Founder of Realsalonean Children’s Foundation for considering their school and making it at their first choice.
He explained some of the constrained they are going through in securing fund and for them to get some of the learning materials the children are using for their schooling.
WASHNET CEO, Musa Ansumana Soko described the move as the right choice.
Regina Peters-Moore congratulated RCF for taking such venture and prayed for more support to be on their path across the world.
