Project HOPE Receives Prestigious Award from Sierra Leone’s President for Ebola Work
Project HOPE was awarded a silver medal by President Ernest Koromo of Sierra Leone for work during the recent Ebola outbreak at a ceremony in Freetown in December 2015.
Project HOPE was among a handful of international humanitarian organizations recognized by President Ernest Koromo of Sierra Leone at a special Ebola award ceremony on December 18, 2015. The award ceremony was held in Freetown at the Statehouse and was attended by more than 1,000 people including cabinet ministers, other senior government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, and national and international NGOs. The Ebola virus claimed 3,955 lives in Sierra Leone during the recent outbreak.
Project HOPE received a silver medal in recognition of the organization’s close partnership and strategic donations of critically needed medicines and medical consumable products that helped save lives during the recent Ebola epidemic. Mariam Sow, Project HOPE’s Consultant in Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis and Osman Kabia, Project HOPE’s Sierra Leone In-Country Consultant were on-hand at the ceremony and beamed with pride as they accepted the award on Project HOPE’s behalf.
More than 100 other organizations and individuals were honored at the ceremony. Posthumous awards were conferred to 16 doctors and other health professionals who succumbed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.