The Will to Help After the Ashes of Desolation : Melqosh Mission International
The Will to Help After the Ashes of Desolation : Melqosh Mission International
Faith Okrafo-Smart ’ s passion to work with war afflicted amputees in Sierra Leone stems from the philanthropic work of her dad with disadvantaged people she witnessed during her childhood and her close experience of the effects of war on her family . Although she was in the United Kingdom when the war broke in Sierra Leone , her father , who was a former Member of Parliament , was brutally attacked by the rebels and almost died as a result of inhumane assaults . He would have died during the war if it were not for the ECOMOG soldiers who arrived just before the rebels put a torch next to his neck to burn him alive .
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