Monrovia, September 9, 2024: The National Food Assistance Agency (NFAA) played host to Ms. Annette M. Kiawu, head of the Episcopal Church of Liberia Relief and Development Organization and Ms. Lucille Harvey, Financial Director of the organization early Tuesday to draw up plans for collaborations.
The Episcopal Church representatives, both of whom are Liberians, said their organization’s desire to get into partnership with NFAA stemmed from the fact that the agency is an institution of government that can better identify individuals and institutions for food assistance in Liberia.
The Episcopal Church of Liberia Relief and Development Organization is said to have been rendering relief services to needy citizens, including the disabled, victims of gender-based violence, school pupils, etc. over the last six years in the country. Other projects the church is involved with under the relief and development programs, according to the representatives, are sustainable agricultural activities and empowerment of community women groups through savings and loan schemes. The team of representatives from the church further disclosed that counties currently benefitting from the relief services include Grand Cape Mount, Bong, Sinoe and Grand Gedeh.
Responding, the Director General of NFAA, Borkai A.M. Sirleaf thanked the representatives for expressing their desire to partner with the agency. He however maintained that NFAA is solely clothed with the statutory mandate to give food assistance to the needy within the country. DG Sirleaf assured the team of fruitful collaborations also in such areas as agricultural activities whereby smallholder farmers would get incentives to produce more because the post-war mandates of the agency laid particular premium on the need to use the Home-Grown Food Commodities for school feeding. He then noted that NFAA, under his watch, had received a number of offers from several other organizations for partnerships in recent times. Some of the said organizations that reached out to NFAA via its facebook page for possible collaborations include a USA-based Topnk Medical Supply headed by Mrs. Peterlyn Killen Morrison as CEO and President, United Motors Inc. in Monrovia and Banjoo Superstore in Monrovia.
