MONROVIA, May 5 (LINA) – Madam Clavenda Bright Parker has said the Omega Market Project, which is located in Paynesville, seeks to provide a holistic, healthy, physical and economic environment for the marketers.

 
Parker also mentioned that the facility will to give market women, sellers and street vendors access to a "state of the art" market as well as housing, health facility, school for their children, storage facilities and other amenities.
 
She pointed out that the project and the entire Omega Market site will also include a two-story building, WASH facilities, electricity and will also have spaces for 400 vendors.
 
Other facilities include four restrooms, six enclosed shops, a cold storage warehouse, clinic equipped with rooms for examination, pharmacy, two wards, restrooms, offices, a generator house and a waste disposal site have been completed, Parker noted.
She reiterated that the project aims to decongest the Red Light Market area both in terms of marketers and traffic and provide the marketers an environment that is safe, comfortable, clean and secured for their commercial and other related trading activities.

She said that in 2010, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) Inc., in keeping with their social responsibility vision saw the Omega Market Project as an opportunity to impact the lives of Liberians who make the greatest impact on Liberia's economy.
Parker of the Eta Beta Omega (EBO) chapter of AKA Inc. said the AKA then contributed US$500,000 towards the Omega Market Project. They also pledged an additional US$500,000 support.

She also pointed out that in 2013, the members of the EBO Chapter of AKA, Inc., raised close to US$1million for the market in honor of President Sirleaf's (an AKA member) 75th birth celebration.
According to her, funding is still limited and that more support is needed to work on and complete phase two of the project which could be completed in about three months if the required resources are available.
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