MONROVIA – The National Food Assistance Agency (NFAA) made a donation of several food items on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 to the Government Hospital in Tubmanburg, Bomi County following assessments of the dire food needs of both patients and staff at the county’s main health facility.
Food items presented on the compound of the hospital included 25kg bags of rice, most of which are locally produced, bunches of plantain, corn porridge (‘Kokodolo’), cartoons of sardine, gallons of palm and argo oil, and sacs of mineral drinking water.
Making the presentation of the items, the Director General of the National Food Assistance Agency (NFAA), Mr. Boakai A. M. Sirleaf lauded the collaborative efforts of the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) through whose kind gesture the donation of the food commodities became a success. “NASSCORP has always been there to help us reach out to people like you, because hunger needs to be tackled with all hands on deck,” DG Sirleaf added.
With the year 2030 set as the global target to achieve ‘zero hunger’, according to DG Sirleaf, Tubmanburg and other communities in the country are among hotspots for food assistance in keeping with a number of assessments NFAA conducted in recent times. He disclosed that recent statistics of the county suggests prevailing cases of malnutrition and extreme livelihood coping strategies employed daily amongst households.
Sirleaf, however, said while the food items available for donation could not adequately address the food needs of everyone, NFAA is going all out to rally support not only from national government, but also the international development partners to help the agency in its frontline position to tackle hunger head-on for the sake of the nation’s food-insecure population.
Receiving the food items, the County Health Officer, Dr. Annette Brimah Davis thanked the NFAA team for the donation, likening the importance of food to human being with gasoline to a motor car. “Just as how it’s impossible for a car to move without gasoline, so too is a human being without food,” she asserted. She added that food is even more important for the patients in the hospital because it enhances the efficacy of whatever drug prescribed for healing.
Meanwhile, Dr. Davis disclosed the launch of an Agriculture Project by the county authority and commended NFAA for embarking on the home-grown feeding approach in the agency’s food assistance programs across the country. The County Health Officer is of the view that with such approach, residents of the Bomi County who over the years have not made use of the available rich vegetation would begin doing so as part of the national fight against hunger.
