Following the declaration of State of Public Health  emergency by the Government of Sierra Leone to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) has been on the frontline; providing not only cash transfers, social services and Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to Persons with Disabilities and other Vulnerable Groups but has also aligned its operational framework with the New Direction aspirations as expressed in the Medium Term National Development Plan (MTND).

In demonstration of its continual commitments to  the fight against Covid-19; NaCSA is providing a one-off cash transfer of One Million Three Hundred and Nine Thousand Leones (SLL 1,309,00) to twenty-nine Thousand (29,000) Sierra Leoneans in Western Area districts and regional headquarter towns.

The Covid-19 Emergency Cash Transfer Programme is funded by the Government of Sierra Leone and the World Bank and it targets households with Vulnerable informal sector workers including those working in micro and small enterprises and low paid workers in the service sector in the capital of Freetown and its environs and regional headquarter towns of Bo, Port Loko, Kenema and Makeni.

Reporting from the Iron ore city of Port Loko, Ms. Marie Caulker, a petty trader and a single  mother of three children has this to say:  ” I am here to collect money and I want to thank the government of Sierra Leone and NaCSA for visiting us during this trying time.

In Makeni City,  the regional headquarter town of  Northern Sierra Leone, Ms. Aminata Sesay appreciated the Government of Sierra Leone for such intervention and promised to properly utilise the benefits for the good of her family.