OPEN LETTER TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

Thank you for the humanitarian services you are rendering to people around the world.

However, permit me to draw your attention to one of the remotest areas on the face of the earth; perhaps, one of the darkest regions on the continent of Africa where the inhabitants have not had the luxury of pipe-borne water, modern health facilities, or no health facilities, inaccessible roads, or no roads, high infant mortality rate, few affordable schools, or no schools, qualified teachers, or no teachers. In short, this is a region where social services and institutions necessary for human survival and progress are lacking in most places.

The area in question is the land-locked region of Liberia called “Grand Gedeh County” in West Africa. For more than a century, Grand Gedeh County in Liberia has suffered stagnation, chiefly, because, it is distanced from the seacoast where missionaries played paramount roles in providing education and healthcare to the people of Liberia.
As a result, the people of Grand Gedeh County are considered the least educated in Liberia, a country with a 75% illiteracy rate.

The plight of Grand Gedeh County in Liberia was exacerbated by more than a decade of civil war which dealt lethal blows to all the existing social and economic institutions in Grand Gedeh County, including cash crop farms which provided meager earnings for the local inhabitants. The war, itself, drove the entire population of Grand Gedeh County into exile in neighboring Ivory Coast and other countries in the West African sub-region.

The war is now over and a great majority of the people has returned to the region, but the existing social conditions stated above have worsened. Many students cannot afford to attend schools past the sixth or ninth grade, simply, because they cannot afford the cost or move out of their environments to go to cities in the country to pursue their education. The chief victims of this unfortunate situation are the girls most of whom have no option but to marriage at early ages, raise children and support their families by means of subsistence farming.

In light of the above, and many more facts herein unstated, I am humbly appealing to you on behalf of the local inhabitants of Grand Gedeh County in Liberia, West Africa to turn your compass of humanitarian assistance to this region of Africa.

Your assistance can be channeled through the Grand Gedeh Association in the America, Inc., a nonprofit, non-political organization established by the descendants of Grand Gedeh County residing in the United States of America. The Association has a 501 (c) (3) which makes it a legal, corporate entity recognized by law.

Please contact us through this website: grandgedehassocincmn.com or call me at telephone number (763) 443 – 1551

Sincerely yours,

Alexander Barmon
PRESIDENT,
GGAA, MINNESOTA CHAPTER