NCA Staff Donate to Sierra Leonean Mudslide Victims – 29th August, 2017
NCA Staff Donate to Sierra Leonean Mudslide Victims – 29th August, 2017
Staff of the National Communications Authority (NCA) have donated disaster relief items such as mattresses, pieces of clothes, blankets, bedsheets and several bales of used clothing worth GH¢10,000.00 to support victims of the mudslide and flood disaster which hit a suburb of Freetown, Sierra Leone a couple of weeks ago. The items were donated through the Sierra Leone High Commission in Ghana on Tuesday, 29th August, 2017.
The NCA staff met with the High Commissioner, Madam Umu Hawa Tejan-Jaloh and her colleagues who welcomed the staff. NCA Staff also signed the book of condolence on behalf of NCA staff. Mrs. Mavis Obeng-Aidoo led the delegation to donate the relief items and spoke on her colleagues’ efforts to help the victims. She recounted that staff of the Authority were sad and moved by the disaster which had taken the lives of hundreds of people and rendered thousands homeless. Mrs. Obeng-Aidoo said, to help alleviate the suffering of victims, staff voluntarily made cash donations which were used to purchase the relief items.
The Book of Condolence being signed by an NCA staff.
NCA representatives in a group picture with the High Commissioner.
Her Excellency Madam Umu Hawa Tejan-Jaloh receiving the items, expressed appreciation on behalf of the Government and people of Sierra Leone for the kind gesture. She also expressed her gratitude to the many groups and individuals that have made various donations in support of the victims of the tragedy. She said, the relief items presented will go a long way to relieve these victims.
The relief items being received by the High Commissioner.
Heavy rains in the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone in August 2017, have caused major landslides in various parts of the city. This left thousands of people homeless and hundreds dead. Food, clean drinking water, and clothing are now needed to help those that have lost everything. Over 1,000 homes have been covered in deep mud with people stranded inside.
Issued by the National Communications Authority,
No. 6 Airport City, Accra.
Tel: (0)30 – 2776621/2771701 or 050-145-1522/3.
E-mail: info@localhost
Date – Tuesday, 29th July, 2017
Editor’s Note
About NCA
The National Communications Authority, (NCA), was established by an Act of Parliament, Act 524 in December 1996, which has been repealed and replaced by the National Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Act 769). The Authority is the statutory body mandated to license and to regulate electronic communication activities and services in the country.
