By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|JNB Foundation’s Communications
Director
A 40’ft container of assorted food items, among them, dried veg mix, tomatoes source, peanut butter, flour, rice, split peas, and even chocolate
cookies, from Canada, was off-loaded here, last week at the Rehab Headquarters the JNB Foundation. Canadian based Mission for
Advancing Theological Education and Friends Committed to Caring, made this donation to President Joseph Boakai’s charity. The donation was substantial and container’s off-load lasted a day and half, and staffers at the president’s foundation including both executive director and deputy all took turn reviewing items unit by unit and instructing where to package them. This gift, according to information gathered had been secured by Atlas’ CEO Dr. Kent Singh, a humanitarian, and Hon. Jallah Queena Hawa Konneh, Liberia Trade & Investment Office’s representative in Canada. Among items the JNB Foundation received were the followings: Flour 318 bags, rice 634 bags, Stoney Creek source 53, vegetable mix 110, split peas 929 packs plus seven cartoon of cookies cream (large and small boxes). Other items included five mattresses, 125 boxes of mask, 82 boxes of gloves and over 200 cartoons of women’s sanitary pads. The estimated monetary cost of the goods or donation was determined to be around
Canadian $71,000, the equivalent of US $82,000. Mr. Lansana M. Kromah, Officer for Trade & Commence at Liberia Trade & Investment Commission in Canada, followed shipment and later turned the 40’ft container over to President Boakai’s charity here on behalf of his own boss, Hon. Jallah Queena Hawa Konneh, an appointee of President Boakai Sr. as Liberia’s representative to the Canadian Trade & Investment Office. Mr. Kromah, a native of Liberia who said his boss couldn’t attend the turn- over ceremony due to pressing matters praised President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. and his administration for working assiduously towards ending what he referred to as “many challenges” people still face in Liberia.
Mr. Kromah spoke briefly of Canada’s potentials as a developed nation and their Trade & Investment’s readiness to assist Liberia, while assuring JNB Foundation’s Executive Director Hon. Jackson K. George Jr. of the Liberia- Canadian based Investment Office plans to work closely with the charity in bringing relief to Liberia. Kromah promised that another 40’ft container of goods, part of a donation by the Liberia Trade & Investment Office, much higher than the referenced container in monetary values, and destined for the foundation, would be arriving here anytime next week. Their office had shipped donations to the foundation previously, he said, saying, “this wasn’t the first donation.” Rev. David Saa Fatorma Jr., the charity’s Board chairman, received the donation on behalf of the JNB foundation, describing it as “welcoming” while acknowledging what he described as “the overwhelming needs for humanitarian outreach” here in Liberia. Present included Hon. Jackson K. George Jr., executive director, and Mr. Henry Saah Flanpor, deputy executive director for the JNB foundation.
Hon. George Jr. vowed his charity would soon start distribution of those items once his staffers get finished with packaging of those goods and
assured the materials including food and other items would be given to the needy.
