To mark Sierra Leone’s 59th Independence Anniversary, the Queennak Foundation is donating to 1,593 kids in 27 communities across Sierra Leone

Freetown | 27th March 2020 | Vertex Media

As Sierra Leone celebrates her 59th Independence Anniversary, the Queennak Foundation will donate learning materials, confectionery and sanitary items for protection against the Coronavirus. The donation will be made to 59 kids in each of the 27 communities selected across the country. A total of 1,593 kids will benefit from this donation.

Neneh Ada Koroma aka Queennak is a US-based Sierra Leonean artist, model and philanthropist who is also the CEO and founder of the Queennak Foundation. Queennak is well known for her philanthropic moves to help the vulnerable especially the kids from his home country Sierra Leone.

In September 2019, she donated learning materials to hundreds of kids in a period of 30 days to mark her 30th birthday celebration in what she called the ‘Queennak 30/30 Challenge.’ She later donated parcels of land plus building materials to about 10 kids, and learning materials to several others in the ‘Nak Kids Got Talent’ to mark her son’s 7th birthday in November 2019. Among other things she has done was her $100,000 support to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the fight against Ebola in 2014, and more…

According to Queennak, she wants to celebrate Sierra Leone’s upcoming independence anniversary by helping the less privileged kids in the country. “This is my own support to the country”, she said. She further explained that the ’27 communities’ represent the date Sierra Leone gained independence from England (on 27th April, 1961), and the 59 kids from each community represent the 59th independence anniversary Sierra Leone will be celebrating. The donation is expected to commence on the 1st to the 27th April 2020.

Queennak will also be putting her newly branded products on sale to support the project. She recently launched her own brand ‘Queennak Luxury’ in the United States. Proceeds from the sale of her branded wears would be used to finance the project and many other projects to follow.

The items to be donated to the 1,593 kids include books, pens, pencils, soap, dettoil, sweets, biscuits, etc, which will help in the fight against the Coronavirus epidemic.