COVID-19 FIGHT: REWAC STANDS WITH ELDERLY PERSONS, PROVIDES FOODSTUFFS


REWAC and Recepients
The Refugee Welfare Association dubbed REWAC has on Saturday July 18, 2020 at the Full Gospel Mission Cameroon House of Grace Bayelle, in partnership with the AVAAZ funded project supported some elderly persons, widows and family heads affected by the coronavirus in the Bamenda III Subdivision.
Item distributed
As the cases of the virus keep surging with elderly persons vulnerable in the midst of contracting the disease, some of them have resulted to personal quarantine leaving them with little or no food to eat and also proper hygiene. Medics have confirmed that elderly people are facing the most threats and challenges at this time of the pandemic. Although all age groups are at risk of contracting Covid-19, elderly people face significant risk of developing severe illnesses if they contract the disease due to physiological changes that come with ageing and potential underlying health conditions.

CEO(Left) of REWAC in action 
The items distributed by REWAC comprised of 5kg of rice, 1liter red oil, cubes of savon, 1 kettle, 1 packet of Maggi, salt, 1 bucket, 1 cooking pot and 1 packet of sanitary pad.
In an advice dished out to the 40 recipients by the founder and president of REWAC Mukete Talhe Itoe, he encouraged them to be steadfast during this Covid-19 period while observing all the barrier measures to combat the pandemic. The CEO of REWAC told the beneficiaries that the support was from different organizations aimed at helping them to live a good and better life in the presence of the challenges they face.
Elderly Persons 
The project manager at REWAC Jingko Laura in an interview with the media said
 “The essence of this outing  was to support elderly persons, widows and heads of families affected by Covid-19. It is a way REWAC came out to support them to combat Covid-19 by giving them food because it has affected so many of them for they don’t have food, wash equipment’s like savon and other things including sanitary pads. It is our own way with our partners to support them during this challenging period of the pandemic.” 

Explaining the reasons for chosen the elderly people as beneficiaries, Jingko Laura ascertained that they are more vulnerable since they do not have the energy like the young ones to run around to see how they can help themselves while with the advent of the crisis, the heads of families take care of IDP’s that have come to the municipality from different places.
Staff of REWAC 
  “It is really challenging for them because the number of persons they used to take care of have increased so we just wanted to support them to help in reducing the burden on them.” Jingko reiterated.
The beneficiaries after receiving their items, praised REWAC for the donation as they expressed need for more to help them live a better life.
“This support will go a long way to help me and my family, knowing how difficult things are with the crisis and now the Covid-19, we thank God for REWAC and we ask for more support.” A family head said.

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