Friends of Liberia raises $65,000 for Ebola-affected communities
The FOL Board of Directors has just allocated $15,000 more to the Ebola Relief Fund. This brings the total raised to $65,000.
Since the beginning of the Ebola crisis, Friends of Liberia (FOL) has sent $50,000 to organizations working in Liberia. The crisis is far from over. With a goal of $100,000, FOL members around the country, many of them Liberian Americans, are holding fundraisers and seeking other types of funding to help those in communities throughout Liberia affected by the virus.
[/three_fourth_last] [video_right][video_frame] [iframe url=”http://youtube.com/embed/SZusF0x6LnU?” width=”572″ height=”312″] [/video_frame] [video_text]Beneficiaries so far are:[h3]Doctors Without Borders[/h3] $10,000 for treatment centers in Monrovia
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Global Health Ministries
— $10,000 to ship protective equipment to Phebe and Curran hospitals in northern Liberia
Catholic Hospital
— $8,000 to help train medical personnel to reopen the hospital and community clinics
Refuge Place International
— $11,000 to offer free medical care to women and children in the absence of alternatives
Women’s Campaign International Rural Women’s Network
— $11,000 to create an emergency fund for communities affected by Ebola to feed quarantined families, remove bodies of Ebola victims and take health information door to door
NPCA raises money for three Ebola-affected countries
FOL has helped the National Peace Corps Association set up an Ebola Relief Fund at PeaceCorpsConnect.org where community-based organizations in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea can apply for assistance.
Like FOL, the NPCA has focused on raising money to address the unmet needs at the village level. As relief slowly comes in from international donors, it is going to the larger institutions and hospitals. Former volunteers are identifying former colleagues and friends in Liberia who are addressing critical but unmet needs at the village and neighborhood level.