The Inquirer (Monrovia)
7 April 2008
One of Liberia's leading humanitarian organizations, the Concerned Christian Community (CCC) has resumed its humanitarian activities across the country.
CCC, on penultimate Tuesday donated several relief items to vulnerable people across the country. Beneficiaries of the CCC gesture include pregnant women, children and the elderly in Gobah Town, Todee District and Margibi County. The organization also donated some health kits, baby kits and hygiene kits and other relief items to several institutions in Kakata, Margibi County.
Institutions that benefited from the CCC relief basket include the Group of 77 Branch in Kakata, the C.H. Rennie Hospital, the Children Future Program and other institutions in the city. CCC along with its partners, Church Aid-Liberia and Church World is at the same time involved in seed multiplication in Kakata City.
Speaking to newsmen minutes following the donation, CCC Board Chairman, Rev. Korto Brown said his organization has received a consignment of relief items valued at US$35,000. He said the items will be distributed to vulnerable people in the rural parts of Liberia.
According to Rev. Brown, counties targeted for now include, Bomi, Margibi, Montserrado, Grand Cape Mount and Bong Counties. He said CCC is also distributing educational materials to schools around the country to enable children get back to school.
Rev. Brown further disclosed that the Church that is carrying on the seed multiplication has received some 50,000 packages of seeds and another 150,000 packages are expected soon. He said the seeds include eggplants, okra, and other vegetables.
Meanwhile Rev. Brown is calling on the government of Liberia to speedily investigate the mysterious death of little Moses Dennis who died recently in Kakata City, Margibi County.
Little Moses Dennis, aged 7, mysteriously got missing last Tuesday only for his lifeless body to be discovered on Wednesday a day following his disappearance. Rev. Brown is urging the government to investigate the killing of little children in recent time by unknown individuals. He said failure on the part of government to attach seriousness to these killings would discourage people and lose confidence in the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf administration.
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