Saturday 11 April 2020, the Sierra Leone Women Engineers donated Hand Sanitizers, toiletries, food items and clothing to two institutions ahead of the government mandated curfew beginning yesterday. Led by our able executive, Ing. Georgette Greene, ladies donated up to Le, 7,250,000 and men and women’s clothes. Funds were used to purchase several items including hand Sanitizers, toiletries and food items.SLWE members rallied and contributed generously to this great effort. Yesterday, we first visited the King George’s Old People’s Home where we met the Administrator, Mrs. Cassandra Johnson. After a little time of prayer and praise fellowship with them, SLWE presented them with 1 bag of rice, 1 dozen hand Sanitizers from Shankerdas, a small bag of onions, carton of sardines, 2 dozen toothbrushes, 1 dozen bars of soap, 2 dozen toothpastes, 1 gallon of cooking oil, 1 bag of sugar and men and women’s clothes.

Flanked by our team of representatives, Ing. Georgette, Ing. Rugiatu Koroma, Ing. Louise Chaytor, Ing. Monica Sellu, Ing. Winifred Williamson- Taylor, the President of SLWE, Ing. Trudy Morgan shared with the residents that our organisation was concerned about them, thinking of them and wanted to share the food, hand Sanitizers, toiletries and clothes to help them through the difficult times we are in. She also said we were presenting them with sugar to give a little sweetness to ther lives..The residents sang a beautiful song and expressed their sincere appreciation for the donations.

Next, SLWE visited the St. George Foundation Interim Care Centre for children.. The Centre located in Grafton is for children who are temporarily separated from their parents for various reasons including family disputes, incarcerated parents, sick parents, misplaced children and orphans. The foundation works with the Ministry of Social Welfare and always finds next of kin to place the children eventually. On behalf of SLWE, Ing Trudy Morgan presented them with 1 bag of rice, 1 bag of sugar, 12 hand Sanitizers from Shankerdas, a small bag of onions, toiletries like 2 dozen toothbrushes and 2 dozen toothpastes, 1 dozen bars of soap, and a gallon of cooking oil. She led a song “If you’re happy and you know it…” with the children and child protection officers to which we all clapped, stamped our feet and shook ourselves a little bit. It was wonderful time. She asked the children if they knew who an engineer was and explained about some fields of engineering that were represented. The Lady in charge of the ICC, Ms. Justina Conteh, told us that this was not the first time engineers had visited the Centre. She expressed their appreciation for the items but said she was grateful for our prayers which were even more important. Finally, a young eloquent male resident gave a vote of thanks.

Finally, SLWE will be donating a hand washing station to the community outside the SLIE Secretariat at New England at the Podapoda parking lot. The handwashing station comes with a 500 litre tank from Shankerdas and foot pedal dispensers for soap and water. The presentation will be made to the Chairman of the area on Tuesday 14 April.