Local NGO presents drugs to two health facilities in Nimba District#3

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ZDA making donation to clinics in district#3 @Daniel Garteh

A local non for profit organization known as Zor Development Association (ZDA) has donated drugs worth over 80,000 Liberian dollars to two health facilities in District number three in Nimba County. 

Zor Development Association is a conglomeration of sons and daughters of Zor clan in Gbeh lay Geh Statutody District in District number three Nimba County with aim of giving back to their community. 

Making the presentation Tuesday at the Zorgowee and Goagortu clinics, the Executive Director of the organization Abraham Nyan Kamara asserted that funding used to purchase the drugs was hugely contributed by sons and daughters of Zor residing in the diaspora. 

Kamara claimed that the drugs were purchased at the Lucky pharmacy in Monrovia and tested by the County Health Team in Nimba before it’s donation to the clinics. 

It can be recalled that at the beginning of the coronavirus in Liberia, ZDA donated assorted preventive measures materials in the clan. 

The institution also in time past donated farming tools to help empower farmers in that part of the county. 

Kamara mentioned that the drugs are major essential drugs needed by the clinics to help safe the lives of citizens in the area. 

“We contacted the two OIC’s and asked them about the kind of drugs they are lacking off and we are here today to deliver them.”

Receiving the drugs on behalf of their clinics,  the two CM applauded the organization for always thinking and giving back to their people. 

The OIC’s claimed that the drugs donated by ZDA will help carry them a long way and help alleviate prescription they have been doing in the past because of lack of some essential drugs. 

For his part, the clan chief of Zor clan Albert Korden explained that this was the first of it kind for citizens of the area to under take such an initiative. 

Korden expressed gratitude to ZDA and ask that it should not be the last, but they should continue to look back at the community needs.