Monrovia, January 23, 2015-Vice President Joseph N. Boakai has presented two forty foot containers of Tuna Fish to the Governments and Peoples of Sierra Leone and Guinea on behalf of the Government of Liberia to beef up the fight against the deadly ebola virus that has plagued the Mano River basin since March of 2014.
The donations were made possible following an appeal by Vice President Joseph Boakai to a British Philanthropist Trevor Cockings of His Church Charity based in the United Kingdom.
Vice President Boakai said it was important to identify with our closest neighbors in this time of great need.
A dispatch from the Liberian Embassy in Freetown has confirmed one of the forty foot containers bearing one thousand three hundred and thirty eight cases of the highly nutritious tuna fish was received by the Government of Sierra Leone through its national operations coordinator at the National Ebola Response Centre of Sierra Leone, Mr. Steven Gauja who thanked the Government of Liberia for the gesture and subsequently turned the consignment over the Dr. Sheku Sesay who is the donor coordinator of the National Ebola Response Centre of Sierra Leone. The ceremony was also attended by House Member Saah Joseph and Mrs. Linda Koroma, Sierra Leone’s Deputy Secretary General of the Mano River Union. The donations were made possible by the Vice President of Liberia, Joseph N. Boakai and a British Churchman and Philanthropist, Trevor Cockings of His Church Charity based in the United Kingdom.