The Emmanuel Pious Richards Foundation (EPRF) on Friday, May 20, 2022, commissioned a multi-purpose hall which comprises an office and a dressing room at Serabu, Bumpeh Ngao Chiefdom.
During the commissioning, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Foundation, Emmanuel Pious Richard said that the foundation is formed to complement the government’s effort in the area of education, agriculture, infrastructure and health.
Mr. Pius Richard explained that even though he was not an indigene of Serabu, but was groomed at Serabu and he knows the challenges people face.
Mr. Richard stated that having obtained the financial capacity which was accumulated from funding for other sources and as well as from savings from his salary he decided to form the EPRF foundation.
The CEO maintained that the project had commenced two months before after feasibility studies, and added that from assessment they realised that the kids in Serabu took their external exams over 17 miles off Bumpeh.
“One day I saw a school kid who fell into a ditch together with the bike rider, pick up herself and went to take her exams and that had moved me and I later engage the community stake holders and they requested for a perimeter fence and a community hall,” he said.
He said he will furnish the library with computers, books and other school materials and that the materials had already been shipped from China to Sierra Leone.
He continued that the Foundation had also been contributing immensely to boost agriculture by providing machinery; seedlings etc, across the chiefdom just to complement the government.
According to him, during the previous holy month of Ramadan the foundation distributed 80 bags of rice to all the Chief Imams across Bumpeh as gifts to support them during the month of Ramadan.
Honourable Osman Abdulai Charles of constituency 079 thanked and appreciated the EPRF foundation for implementing such an initiative.
He maintained that over the year’s pupils have to work miles away from the school to Bumpeh to take their external examinations but now the hall is here for them.
Wuyata Jalloh a pupil from the Serabu Vocational Secondary Schools said: “I thank the EPRF Foundation and the government of President Bio for providing the free quality education for us”, she narrated.