Lesotho Defense Force (LDF) on Monday hurried to a remote rural based village of Leseling to offer relief aid to villagers plagued by different diseases but are unable to visit clinics because. Leseling is a rural based community located in the mountains of Qacha’s Nek district. The poor community that is often plagued by various diseases has no road access to public services, especially those who are sick and cannot be taken to a clinic or hospital. After Harvest FM, a private radio station, raised alarm about the vulnerability of sick members of the community, “LDF’s helicopter flew to the area to help patients who are very sick at home,” according to the LDF’s public affairs officer, Liutenant Colonel Mashili Mashili.

He explained: “Leseling is very remote and a least developed place without roads access, no telephone network signals. They have to travel some kilometers from their village in order to get telephone signal to communicate with relations and friends.” Thanks to the Harvest FM, the initiative of helping the sick at home has yielded a collaboration with the LDF medical team.  “We have been helping disadvantaged and needy people for the past 10 years. It is the mandate of Harvest FM to raise alarm in different ways whenever Basotho need help. We have also been contributing to pay school fees for orphans,” said ‘Malichaba Lekhoaba, founder and managing director of Harvest FM.

Lekhoaba told Metro that the ‘Samaritan tale’ started when she found herself offering help to a young man of Qoaling in Maseru who was paralyzed for two years without artificial walking limps. “I was later approached by Khojane Majoro, (a popular radio caller known as Rangoane Kaine) who asked if we could help Mokatsa Suping, 35, who is battling with cancer and later again ‘Mamatseliso Lebenya, 86, whose knee operation was wrongly done at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital. The duo are residents of Leseling where they are sick and stranded at home,” she said.