The media community is being respectfully asked to help publicize the case of this young promising lady to find some solution to visual impediments that threaten her future.
Venus P. Kollie is 18 and lives with her mother in Tuan Town, just 10 to 15 minute drive from Bentol City in Montserrado County.
The last of her mother’s five children, Venus was born with a conspicuously bloated right eye that she says all major eye clinics in Monrovia have failed to correct.
She is an 11th grade student of Hope International Academy on the road leading from Bentol to Todee. So she’s hopeful some help will come someday.
I was deeply touched when I saw Venus with her mother (in the background in yellow) recently in Tuan Town and I thought to help tell her story in the media. The 18-year-old is in search of help to solve her eye problem that has been recommended for an overseas attention. She loves Biology and hopes to enter the medical field someday to be able to help save lives.
But this dream could be thwarted if her eye is not taken care of. Even though Venus and her mother say all major eye clinics in Monrovia have failed to address her situation.
If there are eye treatment centers that want to look into her situation closely, please call: (231) 0880731782 or (231)0775467761.
Getting help for this teenager —- a female student for that matter — would be one of the greatest things that could ever happen in my life as a media person. Writes Jonathan Paye-Layleh, a Liberian nationalist journalist, father and grandfather