The Covid-19 Crisis
LIBERIA DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY: MINISTER OF HEALTH, “OUR ENTIRE NATION IS THREATENED.”
Empty Pharmacy Shelves at Kolahun Hospital
How RESTORE HOPE: LIBERIA is responding...
We are one of the only humanitarian aid organizations remaining in rural Lofa county. We must respond to the health crisis that the current pandemic now presents in Liberia.
Here’s what RHL is doing:
Continuing to pay all staff, despite suspension of some activities such as the afterschool tutoring program.
Supporting our staff in practicing preventive measures while they continue critical work by making home visits to vulnerable children in the community.
Increasing the amount of direct cash transfers from $10 per month to $20 per month per household.
Setting up support to our peer-to-peer health counselors to provide prevention messaging to the community while practicing physical distancing.
Making a distribution of books for children to have learning materials at home while out of school, at the same time providing children and caregivers with preventive messaging about staying safe during the pandemic.
Raising funds to supply two hospitals, Kolahun District Hospital and the Foya-Borma Hospital, with essential medicine and supplies as they face a looming catastrophe.
In the midst of uncertainty and loss, you CAN do something to ease the suffering. Please consider donating to provide hospitals in rural Liberia with basic medicine and supplies.
We are all witnessing what this pandemic can do to health systems of various capacities around the world.
Imagine the scale of mortality that could befall a country that has scant resources. These two hospitals support a population of over 170,000. THERE IS NOT ONE VENTILATOR, NOT ONE MASK, NOT ONE PAIR OF EXAM GLOVES IN STOCK. THE PHARMACY SHELVES ARE EMPTY. Even basic items are needed—soap, hand sanitizer, bleach and other cleaning supplies, and PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to protect the lives of our hospital staff.
They are doing what they can: setting up handwashing stations around the hospital and putting in place some measures learned from the Ebola epidemic such as screening points and isolation units.
Without more support, the number of deaths will be astounding.
