MONROVIA – The Management of Liberia’s fast-growing non-for-profit, the Jomah B. Samuels Care Foundation (JBS Care Foundation), has issued a fraud alert, regarding some unscrupulous individuals, who are extorting money from residents of Margibi County under the pretext that the Foundation is soliciting money to recruit Liberians for jobs in the United States.
The JBS Care Foundation has, with shock and total outrage, been reliably informed that some unidentified individuals are impersonating as staff of the Foundation and are extorting money from citizens in Kakata and Marshall Cities, in Margibi County, in a scheme of recruiting their victims into the Jomah B. Samuels Care Foundation and Woods Services Foundation partnership project, the International Family and Friends Workers Program (IFFWP).
According to a press release, the Foundation through its Founder and CEO, Mr. Jomah B, Samuels, has refuted such claim of ever requesting money to facilitate the travel of anyone to the U.S. for job opportunities through the IFFWP.
“Please do not give anyone money under the pretext of recruiting you on our behalf, for jobs in America,” said Mr. Samuels, who stated categorically on Monday that the JBS Care Foundation has absolutely not designated anyone in Liberia to carry out a recruitment exercise for the International Family and Friends Workers Program.
“The Jomah B. Samuels Care Foundation has not designated anyone for such purpose. Doing business with unscrupulous individuals in this regard would be at your own risk,” Mr. Samuel warned unsuspecting members of the public, especially citizens and residents of Margibi County.
Meanwhile, it can be recalled, the U.S. firm Woods Services Foundation, in collaboration with the Liberian-owned non-for-profit, Jomah B. Samuels Care Foundation, on 25 April 2023, commenced a three-day intensive training for Liberians recruited to take up jobs in the US.
A delegation of executive members of Woods Services Foundation led by JBS Care Foundation’s Founder/Executive Director, and Board Chair, Messrs. Jomah B. Samuels and Henry Williams, arrived in Liberia on 24 April 2023, for the conduct of the training exercise which took place at the Boulevard Palace Hotel, in the capital Monrovia.
While in the country, the Woods Services Foundation team comprising executives and senior staff of the organization, officially launched the International Family and Friends Workers Program, which seeks to address staffing crisis by recruiting internationally among staff friends and family, using Green Card program for over 50 people on a rotational basis.
In August of last year, the Founder and CEO of the JBS Care Foundation, Mr. Jomah B. Samuels, was named as one of several Africans to work with Woods Services Foundation aimed at recruiting dozens of Liberians for jobs in the United States.
Mr. Samuels, who currently serves as Case Manager of Woods Services Foundation, was brought on board by the U.S. firm, as a Consultant, for the Foundation’s International Workers Friends and Family Program.
The initial recruitment exercise of the International Family and Friends Workers Program, an initiative of the Woods and Brian’s House in the U.S., has already taken place, with the first batch of 55 Liberians being selected for the pilot project phase, for what will be a continuous process.
During it’s week-long stay in Liberia, the Woods Services Foundation delegation conducted a rigorous training exercise of its initial 55 beneficiaries for the International Family and Friends Workers Program, and the beneficiaries are expected to shortly travel to the United States to take up employment opportunities.
