Monrovia – The Varney Taylor Foundation (VTF) has donated several bags of rice to the maternity center and health workers of Redemption Hospital on the Bushrod Island.
The hospital got 40 bags of 25-kg rice. Dr. Williamatta S. Williams-Gibson applauded the Foundation for the support to the hospital.
Dr. Gibson is the Medical Director at the Redemption Hospital.
“We are very grateful for this gesture and we can assure you that those babies’ mothers will have their fair share of this rice supplied to us today,” she said.
“We all eat rice. In fact, it is our staple food; no one here easily goes a day without eating rice and as such, a few cups for each of us will do so much in our homes,” Dr. Gibson further noted.
Earlier, Mr. Matthew Darblo, chief executive officer of Varney Taylor Foundation-Liberia told the Redemption Hospital’s management that his foundation won’t be complacent in this difficult and challenging time.
“Cllr. Varney Blamah Taylor, the proprietor and chief financier of this Foundation, is a son of Liberia living in the United States. He has a heart focused on helping his own people back home, mainly the very less fortunate,” Darblo said.
Darble admonished the Redemption Hospital’s management to ensure that all the patients at the maternity ward receive their own share of the rice.
“Please, 20 bags of the 40 bags are for the babies’ mothers or those who are here waiting for child birth. Let each of them get some so that their relatives or friends can prepare for the next few days’ meals,” he admonished.
The donation which was done on Monday, April 27, 2020 brought VTF’s Coronavirus time humanitarian gestures to two, with the first been the John F. Kennedy Hospital Memorial Hospital on April 2.
“Varney Taylor Foundation is a not-for-profit organization operating in the U.S. and Liberia. Its principal objective is to see the less fortunate rise from the state of extreme poverty to a profitable life’s existence for a human.
The foundation is involved in supporting the agriculture and education sectors as well as health and a lot more of other sectors aimed at promoting good and healthy living,” Darblo further said.
He added: “We have and will continue to pay the tuition of less fortunate students, provide them, through their schools, materials to help them in their learning.
We also support small scale farming by providing the means, including tools and cash when necessary to boost agro-based production.”
Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Foundation donated fuel and money for medical supplies to Phebe Hospital in Gbarnga, Bong County and paid tuition of less fortunate students at the Bomi County Community College, the C.H. Dewey Central High School as well as St. Dominic Junior High School and Al-Rashad Islamic School, all in Tubmanburg, Bomi County.