By Moses M. Tokpah, mosesmtokpah@gmail.com
Liberia’s ongoing economic crisis may lead to the denial of several Liberians from benefiting a free medical treatment from an international medical team, the Hands of Hope Foundation that is expected in Liberia in March 2020.
Making the disclosure to newsmen recently in Bong Mine, Lower Bong County, the Country Director of the Hands of Hope Foundation in Liberia, Rev. Paye Cooper Mondolo said if the situation doesn’t improve, it will impede the process.
He indicated that some members of the Hands of Hope Foundation team are now in Liberia, but are facing serious financial challenges as they are finding it difficult to withdraw money from the Organization’s account for project.
“We have few International Guests here, money that we need to use for particular project we just not getting it; you go to the Bank if you want money you really don’t get it,” he said.
Rev. Mondolo explained that the visiting charity team cannot be in Liberia when situation remains the way it is.
They are having some discussion to see how they can get money in the Country indicating that they do not want to bring the people in the Country where they will be stranded to get money, the Liberian cleric said.
Rev. Mondolo also said it took the Organization longer time to withdraw US$9,000 to implement a project adding that Hands of Hope Foundation spends over US$200,000 whenever the team is in Liberia.
This year, the Christian charity Foundation has a larger team coming into the Country because the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital is part of their process and the Organization recently sent a 40foot container to the facility.
He further averred that the team will be divided into three with some being assign at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, the Weala Health Center and the Ganta respectively, as such those people cannot come into the Country in the midst of the current financial situation.
Hands of Hope Foundation operates and develops faith-based communities that will function on a local, national and international level to provide financial and/or direct assistance to individual families. And the group also assists in meeting a wide variety of needs. They include short term housing, medical care, education assistance, drinkable water, food and other clothing as well as place of respite for Ministers and their families.
The organization has for several years carried out medical outreach in Liberia especially at its mission station in Weala, Margibi County, providing scholarship for University and High School students, construct churches and hand pumps, among others.