Rice for Seven

The Nyailay family lives in a two bedroom apartment with no running water or electricity. The father is a civil servant that has been transferred to another town very far away from where the rest of the family lives. The mother Amie is a nurse in training and the main provider of the home with a monthly income of $35, which is not enough to cover the family’s basic needs. The provision of rice to her family at this point in time is a great relief for her.

August, the eldest child, attends the Sierra Leone Mission Primary school and she is in form one; she wants to be a banker when she grows up. Keima is the second child and she is attending the Ashbury United Methodist Church primary school and she is in class five. She wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Abdul is the third child and he is a pupil of the Ashbury UMC primary school and he is in class three. The children have to use a kerosene lamp to study at night but they understand that education is important. Amie also has another child and two dependent relatives living with her so the rice for the family will help ease the worry of whether they will have enough to eat.

The Nyailay family expresses their thanks for the provision of a bag of native rice.