Liberia: Lofa Ebola Survivors, Orphans Crave for Support

Survivors and those that have been rendered orphans by the Ebola Virus Disease in the worst hit county of Lofa, are pleading with the government of Liberia, through President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, local and international Non-Governmental Organizations and philanthropists, to help them re-establish their lives.

The survivors and orphans, under the name "Ebola Survivors and Orphan Association of Lofa (ESOAL), which reportedly has membership of over 300, said that they had been hard hit by the outbreak of the virus, thus rendering their lives pitiful and difficult.

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