Liberia: Circle of Concern Foundation Identifies with Triplets in Bomi County

MONROVIA – The makeshift room where the triplets’ shelter is partially dark at day and depends only on a blazing sun-light flashing from a window.

By Nathan P. Charles, Contributor

Beautiful dress up, the kids were seeing laid on their back gazing into the room ceiling as a team of humanitarian workers arrived to meet them.

Three beautiful triplets, two girls and a boy named Patience, Cecelia and Jonathan came into the world on November 26, 2018 to their struggling parents Jonathan Hills and Zoe Jallah.

The parents of the triplets a residents of Gbarpolu County travel miles to the Liberian government run Hospital in Tubmanburg, Bomi County the western region of Liberia to give birth to their kids .

The triplet father is a communion farmer while their mother is currently out of job and business forcing her to remain home and continue with daily home activities.

Jonathan and his wife is currently sheltering at one of their family members makeshift house in Tubmanburg , Bomi County.

Biblically, children are blessing from God but naturally if their parents are not financially potent they turn out to be a burden as in the case with the triplets. In Liberia, poverty, hardship is nothing strange thus forcing people to survive on handouts and can’t afford their daily meals.

Circle of Concern Foundation Program Director, Zoe Dennis and Chief Financial Director, Zoe Suah read about the urgent need to assist the kinds through a social media post by a Liberian Journalist Zinnah B. Cassell.

Journalist Cassel on social media explained that the parents of the triplets were in dying need of assistance and urged the general public to help.

Zinnah wrote ” the Parents of these set of triplets are willing to give out any of these newly born kinds to anyone who will express interest, they are two females and a male ”

According to Ms. Dennis and Ms. Suah their organization was touched by the Facebook post and the cute faces of the infants’ couple with the concern of their parents to ensure their kids have a better future.

The foundation officials who traveled from Monrovia to Bomi County, provided assorted items include, dippers, Clorox, soap, baby bottles, batteries, and cash as the organization’s initial donation and promise to do more.

According to Ms. Dennis and Suah their foundation seeks to handle the issues of poverty with respect to portray the poor in ways that shows hope and the promise of positive future.

“We strongly believed in upholding the dignity of the poor and making people self-reliance” they noted.

Beaming with smile, the triplet’s parents Jonathan and Zoe lauded the foundation for the timely gestures, stressing that it will go a long way. ” We say thanks for what you have done for us and our children, may God bless you people” they noted.

They appeal to the foundation to continue supporting their triplets and also requested for other humanitarian institutions and individuals to assist them.

Circle of Concern is a non- for-profit organization established in 2018 whose desire to feed the hungry and provides assistance to low-income families living throughout Liberia aimed at empowering people and reduce poverty.