The Moderator

'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".

Our problem is not that we don't know our actions are wronged, we just don't have the courage to correct them.

When it is wronged, it is wronged. There is nothing like " this is how it done here in Liberia".

We have to change the lens we are using to view Liberia. We can't continue to attribute what is wronged, ugly, corrupt, and inhumane as things that are unique to Liberia and at the same time except Liberia to be a better place.

What if we begin to view our country with the same lens we use to view other countries like America, Ghana, South Africa, Great Britain etc. For us, these are best parts of the world to live and very few places where laws and orders should be adhere to unless ours.

Someone has to start something right. Once it is wronged, it is wronged. We have to admit that we are the problems and our country.

If you took the Americans, Ghanaians, South Africans and people of those other nations we admire most and brought than all to Liberia and in the same manner, left to stay in their respective countries, in no time, we will soon transformed those land into nations of lawlessness, corruption and all of those unprohibited things that we find unique to Liberia.

If we continue to view Liberia as a hell, a hell it remains. But if we can monster the courage and begin to take responsibility for our actions by viewing Liberia as a paradise, as we view other nations, so it will become.

Don't respect people because you want them to do the same. Respect them because it the right thing to do.

"Your mental picture creates your future "!

Give this a thought!

Happy Sunday folks.

JUST MAYBE WE NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES " life doesn't end with just you and me, there are millions and millions of young people out there that need our help".

Our Countries, States and Continents are not always just the big Provinces, Cities and Towns where we live and enjoy to some extent all the comforts.

Lives extend in the distant Jungles, behind and on top of the high mountains and hills and deep down the lowest Valleys. There are suffering people across those rivers and lakes that we read about. Creature to which we belong also seek survival on those hard to reach islands.

THE QUESTION IS " IN OUR DECISION MAKING AND EQUITY DISTRIBUTION PROCESSES, ARE WE ALSO TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE INCLUSIVENESS AND WELL BEING OF THOSE SUFFERING MILLIONS"?

YOU ARE NOT MORE CITIZENS THAN THEM THOUGH.

SELFISHNESS IS WHEN YOU ARE CARRIED AWAY BY THE MERE THOUGH THAT YOU ARE A god-head THEREBY IGNORING THE IDEAS AND EXISTANCE OF OTHERS.

Displayed here are children from Japanta Community in Salala District B**g County. This forgotten community is home to some of the oldest and earliest people of Liberia. It comprises of Twelve Villages and towns including Japanta, Wheinta, Gbanta, Yeameii, Japan town just to name few.

With its over one thousand school going kids, the entire community can boast of having one abandoned school building for all its one dozen or more towns and villages. Classes are usually held on Tuesday and Thursday since in fact Monday, Wednesday and Friday are Flelela, Totota and Salala market days respectively and school going boys and girls are to help their parents and guardians transport red oil and tin of cane juice to those markets grounds.

As large as it is, this community lacks all the basic human needs. There is not a single drugs store not to speak of a clinic, people in this area still practice the traditional methods of fetching running water and poorly managed wells for consumption purposes. Their roads and bridges are among the very worst you can find anywhere. Thanks to big brother Paul Wungko
for his support in the construction of one modern bridge there.

They are to a larger extent the forgotten people of B**g county and Liberia at large when it comes to basic social services.

The BRAINS campaign is on!