The Sarbil Christian Community Clinic in Careysburg, Liberia, presented the JNB Foundation with 501 pieces of mostly prescription glasses which the foundation’s Eye Specialist will distribute among needy patients in the country.
The assorted lenses are designed for use by both males and females and includes short and long sights, as well as high-powered lenses, according to Eye Specialist Mr. Habib J. Kamara.
The estimated total value of the package was placed at US $15,000.
Mother Sarah J. Kangar, owner of Sarbil Christian Community Clinic who made the donation said she received the items from a missionary group abroad and has since been looking around to see where, or to whom to donate them.
She said the glasses given by the group to her clinic were more than what’s now at hand but that she had earlier on given several boxes to other healthcare facilities in the country to be given out free to people in need and can’t afford them.
Today’s donation to the Joseph Nyuma Boakai Foundation, according to Mother Kangar, came about after she personally met a fellow Christian networker Rev. David Saa Fatorma who spoke highly of the foundation’s works, including providing free eye care services to needy people. Rev. Fatorma chairs the JNBF board.
Mother Kangar, a 1992 TNIMA graduate, had previously worked for several NGOs in Liberia before traveling abroad to work and had dreamed of returning home some days, working at hospitals and serving orphans plus the less fortunate population after her retirement.
That dream, she told staff at the JNB Foundation Thursday, landed her a job, first with the World Vision in 1996, during which she got a contract that took her to South Sudan as a nutritionist.
Thereafter, she trained with MSF in 2002 and moved on to other countries such as Ethiopia and Chad to work.
Responding, the foundation’s Executive Director Jackson K. George called Mother Kangar’s gifts a “massive donation” and promised his organization would ship some to rural Liberia where most can’t afford to purchase them.
