RAMADAN FOOD PACKS
food insufficiency & OUR INTERVENTION
In recognition of the acute food insufficiency and hunger among many people, mainly in rural communities in Sierra Leone that Tawheed Foundation Sierra Leone has assiduously lobbying partners (donors), locally and globally to donate food packs to these communities in order to mitigate their suffering conditions.
In December 2018, One Ummah Charity started funding Food Packs Projects in Sierra Leone. Since 2018, One Ummah has funded the implementation of over 10,000 Food Packs to deserving beneficiaries across 14 of the 16 political districts in Sierra Leone. Each food pack cost £30 and each contains a 50kg grain rice, 10kg onions, 3litres cooking oil, 4 packets salt and 1packet Maggie,
The One Ummah Food Packs Projects massively impacting the lives over ten thousand (10,000) direct beneficiaries in some of the poorest communities in Sierra Leone; The Food Pack lasted most beneficiaries with an average family of five a period of one (1) month. Beneficiaries are able divert their resources to address to other important family needs like the paying of healthcare bills and school materials and fees for their children.
As a Muslim dominated nation, the Food Packs Project gives most Sierra Leoneans Muslims particularly the beneficiaries that the Muslim World has not abandoned them and that other Muslims in other parts of the world are in solidarity with their suffering conditions.
Food pack distribution 2020
Background Information
In Sierra Leone, the situation of food insufficiency and hunger is not dissimilar to that of most developing countries in the world. Sierra Leone is a developing country in West Africa with very low development indicators; more than half of its population living below poverty line.
Most Sierra Leoneans in the rural areas are engage in subsistence farming. Over the years, they have been experiencing very low- yields because of overused of the soil and lack of agricultural loan facility and modern agricultural/farming implements.
This unfortunate scene has exacerbated the plights of people especially women (widows) Children (Orphans) and persons with disabilities. There is an urgent need to support these people with food aid.
