By Lemuella Tarawallie
The Make Ways Foundation has launched the Make Ways Sports Centre, aka “Na Wi Yone”, at its Murray Town centre, west of Freetown.
The centre, which is a non-profit making boutique that deals in all types of clothing, foot wears and items for all sporting disciplines, is aimed at supporting the Make Ways Foundation.
During the launching the Manager of the Make Ways Foundation, Morlai Kamara, disclosed that sales from the boutique (centre) would be used to support the Foundation in Kamakwie in northern Sierra Leone.
Morlai Kamara added that the items in the Make Ways Sports Centre were being sold at very reasonable prices so that even persons with little monies in their pockets would be able to buy them.
He said, despite it being a non-profit making venture, the monies from the sales would be used to support community development such as digging of water wells and the provision of school items to less privileged children in Kamakwie and Freetown.
On his part the Deputy Manager of the Make Ways Foundation, Ishmail Lucky Mansaray, revealed that the Make Ways Sports Centre was born out of the Make Ways Foundation, which started in 2018 by an Australian lady called Katherine Cacavas, who visited Sierra Leone for tourism.
He noted that out of her lover for Sierra Leone and passion for less privileged children who were engaged in athletics; Katherine established an organisation called “Great Connection” which was later transformed to the Make Ways Foundation.
Mr Mansaray revealed further that after they had registered the Make Ways Foundation, there wasn’t enough money to sponsor the Foundation so its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Katherine Cacavas (aka Mariama Jalloh), decided to start the shipping of both used and brand new sporting wears and items from Australia to Sierra Leone in order to engage in community development activities, support orphans and less privileged children to pay their school fees, and support them with school uniforms, books, and other relevant school materials.
A member of the Mount Aureole Rotary Club, Adolphus Samuels, said they decided to partner with the Foundation to launch the Make Ways Sports Centre because it would further help its humanitarian aims and objectives in Sierra Leone.
Mr Samuels noted that the Rotary Club at Mount Aureole would continue to partner with the Make Ways Foundation to improve the lives of people in Sierra Leone.