{"id":60904,"date":"2013-09-21T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=60904"},"modified":"2013-09-21T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T19:00:49","slug":"t4u-boosts-house-of-jesus-for-the-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=60904","title":{"rendered":"T4u boosts House of Jesus for the Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The House of Jesus for the Disabled in Freetown has received seven bags of 25 kg rice, clothes, shoes and Le200,000.00 from Teams for You\u00a0\u00a0 (T4U), a group of British volunteers that came to this country to assess the condition of the deprived and less-privileged Sierra Leoneans.\u00a0 <em>(Photo: Dave Cooke and Pastor Koroma)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Handing over the items, the Director of T4U, Mr. Dave Cooke, explained that the donation was in fulfilment of a promise he made to them earlier that they would assist them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are here to give our little assistance to our brothers and sisters and children too,\u201d said Mr. Cooke, adding that he wanted his colleagues to confirm what he had told them about the deplorable conditions of members of the House of Jesus back home in England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his comments, Pastor Abu Koroma of the Word of Life Church in Wellington, said he was happy with the donation, noting that by the grace of God, more goodies will be extended to members of the House of Jesus in future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Receiving the items, the Chairman of House of Jesus for the Disabled, Mr. Amara Koroma alias Toesman, expressed appreciation over the gesture extended to them. He said the arrival of T4U was a dream come true as they have been praying for such opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his remarks, the Project Coordinator of House of Jesus for the Disabled, Mr. Mathew Vandi, thanked T4u for the gesture, adding that their intervention makes them feel proud as neglected disabled persons. He called on Government to provide them with medical facilities in order to reduce the death rate in the compound.<\/p>\n<p><i>By Ilyasa Baa<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Jesus for the Disabled in Freetown has received seven bags of 25 kg rice, clothes, shoes and Le200,000.00 from Teams for You\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,11448,673],"tags":[15985],"class_list":["post-60904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","category-national-news","tag-house-of-jesus-for-the-disabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}