A massive celebration is taking place across Liberia to mark May 9, 2015 as it is being certificated and pronounced by the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring that Liberia is now an Ebola-Free nation in West Africa.
WaterAid Liberia and Sierra Leone in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Liberia is to provide four health centers in Montserrado County with improved water system under its “WASH in Health Facility Project”.
Residents of three communities in Liberia’s biggest municipal, Paynesville in Montserrado County have become the latest beneficiaries of the construction of three modern latrine facilities.
Last week in Bong County, the National Technical Coordinating Unit (NTCU) – responsible for setting Liberia’s national WASH guidelines – verified 29 new communities as Open Defecation Free (ODF). “What was originally just a short-term basic hygiene promotion has become another successful Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) project,” said Global Communities former Country Director Piet deVries to his country staff.
TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Precious Philemon survived a gruelling experience of a crumbled marriage, which left her in the care of her young child. As she struggled to make ends meet she resorted to prostitution and for several years she made out of the profession yet she could no longer endure to the gruelling effects and tough side that came along with the job.