The Regional Coordinator East of an Indigenous Non Government organization known as Counterpart Rehabilitation and Development in Sierra Leone, (CORD-SL) Julius Dauda has told the press that his organization will do everything possible to come to the aid of the grassroots people not only in the eastern region, but the nation as a whole. He made this statement while addressing a cross section of the press at his No. 4 I K Mohamed Street in Kenema City.
He revealed that CORD-SL has been intervening in various sectors such as education and health, the provision of safe drinking water to Peripheral Health Units (PHUs) and selected primary schools in remote communities and also the training of teachers and pupils in school sanitation and hygiene education.
Mr. Dauda went on to disclose his organization’s numerous interventions in improving the water sanitation and hygiene in a number of communities. These include, the rehabilitation of water sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities at Faala Town in Wandor Chiefdom; Pelewahun , Lowoma, Weima and Torkpumbu Buima villages in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom; Talia Torgboma village in the Nongowa Chiefdom, Bendu Mamema village in the Malegohum Chiefdom, Giema PHU in the Dama Chiefdom, Baoma Oil Mill PHU in Kandu Leppiama Chiefdom, the PHU at Sondumei and Bandawoh villages in the Niawa Chiefdom and the PHU at Blama in the Small Bo Chiefdom.
The Regional Coordinator explained that CORD-SL has also carried out rehabilitation and construction of school latrines and provided hand washing facilities in a number of primary schools there by making these schools child friendly.
He says the knowledge gained by the school pupils in hygiene practices will be transferred to their parents at home and the communities thereby minimizing the risks of diarrheal and cholera diseases in the communities.
CORD-SL operates in Kenema, Kono, Kailahun, Port Loko, Pujehun and Moyamba Districts and in the Western Area and Urban Districts. The East Coordinator assured that for as long as CORD-SL continues to get funding from its partners and donors, they provide more PHUs, schools in communities that are yet to benefit.
CORD-SL is also implementing the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) project in Nongowa, Small Bo and Niawa Chiefdoms in the Kenema District. He explained the CLTS project as a process of extricating communities from disgust and shame by analyzing their sanitary conditions and urging them to collectively construct their latrines using locally available materials without subsidy from either the government or any NGO. He paid tribute to UNICEF, GOLD-Serra Leone, IRC, Oxfam and the Government of Sierra Leone for their support.
By Saffa Moriba
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