…Citizens express Disappointment over Addition Hardship – By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – The price of a locally produced mineral water has sharply increased over the last few days in Monrovia, Liberia’s Capital. A sack of water once sold for 55 Liberian dollars is now 100 Liberian dollars, while a little bag which was once sold for 5 Liberian dollars is now ten Liberian dollars or two bags for 15 Liberian dollars. Some retailers have attributed the increment to the shortage of fuel on the Liberian Market, while others are blaming Mineral Water Companies for arbitrarily increasing the price. An... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, February 20th 2014 |
….Says NSEC Executive Director Robert Dolo – The Executive Director of the New Sight Eye Center (NSEC) in the Duport Road Community, Paynesville, Robert Dolo, has disclosed that the main aim for the Center’s Medical and Surgical Outreach Program is to make eye treatment accessible and affordable for rural dwellers across the country. Currently, Mr. Dolo said the Center’s Outreach Program is targeting dwellers in four of Liberia’s fifteen counties which include Rural Montserrado, Lower Bong mainly in the Bong Mines community and adjacent, Grand Cape Mount and Margibi. “Many of the various eye problems in the country are concentrated... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, February 18th 2014 |
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Few months back at the close of 2013 up to early January this year, Liberia’s largest municipality Paynesville, situated in Montserrado County, one of the fifteen sub-political divisions of the country, was on the daily basis sinking deeply into dirt as the stockpiles of huge garbage were seen in every corner of the City, especially in the Commercial District of Red Light. As the day passes by, there were all sorts of names given to Paynesville by the residents themselves, petty traders and other individuals who passed through the City, mainly in the Commercial... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, February 10th 2014 |
The Liberia WASH Consortium (LWC) is pleased to announce that Population Services International (PSI) has since October 2013 joined the Consortium as the 6th core member after being the Consortium’s Associate Member for over a year. Population Services International is the global leader in health social marketing, working in 69 countries to improve health outcomes in child survival, malaria, family planning/reproductive health, and HIV prevention. In Liberia, PSI has ongoing programs in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and in family planning/reproductive health. PSI Liberia is known as “the marketing expert” in health, and specializes in working through the private sector to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, January 27th 2014 |
A delegation from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) traveled to Bong County to visit sites of the Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IWASH) Project on January 14, 2014. IWASH is funded by USAID and has been working in Bong, Nimba and Lofa counties since 2010. The visiting delegation included Chris Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, and other USAID representatives from both Washington D.C. and the Liberia Mission. They were accompanied by implementing partners, Global Communities and PSI in addition to Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mrs. Sekau Wiles, and the Bong County Health Officer. The purpose of the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, January 22nd 2014 |
