By Joseph O. Sayon
An American charity, Last Well has responded robustly to the water crisis in Foya and Kolahum Districts in Lofa County.
The charity response is based on an article carried in the April 24 Edition of the Daily Observer under the caption, Foya Kolahum Districts Suffer Acute Water.
According to the charity, government relations officer, Abdul Koroma, the respond of the charity is part of its mandate to ensure that Liberians have access to safe drinking water.
He describes the water crisis in the two districts as appalling and regrettable for Liberians to go through such a suffering.
Mr. Koroma disclosed that his organization has dispatched its contractors to Lofa to carry on a robust assessment aimed at addressing the situation in the two districts.
He further disclosed that Last Well intervention will not only be focused on the two districts, but the entire county.
Koroma said they will construct 116 new hand pumps and rehabilitate 161 hand pumps.
He indicated that charity will also carrying out the distribution of 5,500 water filter buckets in the county.
The charity is meanwhile calling on other partners operating in the county to carry out some intervention to assist citizens of the two districts.
He told Liberia Public Radio, Last Well will continue to the respond to needs of Liberians on the line of providing safe drinking water.
The two districts in the county are said to be densely populated and the water crisis started in March of this year.
Worst water crisis
According to reports, citizens in these two districts have to wake up at 4:30 am to fetch water.
Kolba town is one of the worst areas hit by the water shortage.
It is reported that the town does not have a hand pumps thus making it extremely difficult for residents to have access to safe drinking water.
The respond of Last Well has been described by many in the county as timely and lifesaving gesture by the American charity
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