MONROVIA – Ahblawoe Sports Association, a U.S.-based old-timers club comprising mostly of ex-footballers, with a branch in Liberia, has donated an assortment of food and non-food items to three orphanages, the Sis. IYE Children Orphanage, Rescue for Abandoned and Children in Hardship (REACH), and the Calvary Mission Orphanage.
Making the presentation of these items, which include over 70 bags of rice, several boxes of vegetable cooking oil, and toiletries, the message of Veteran Ahblawoe’s President Abu Massally, remained the same, indicating that he and members of his organization through whose voluntary cash contributions the old-timers’ outfit was giving back to the needy in the Liberian society.’
During the first stop by Massally and his team made up of members, officials and several ex-presidents of Veteran Ahblawoe, at the REACH offices located at 72nd Boulevard, the old-timers’ club president told the founder and administrator of the orphanage, Madam Ne-suah B. Livingstone that considering the level of humanitarian work her group is doing, the donation was a drop in the bucket, but assured her that from time to time, as opportunities unfold, Veteran Ahblawoe would remember them as the group also did two years ago.
“We are here today, to give this drop in the bucket, as a token of appreciation for what you people are doing for our kids,” Massally emphasized, adding that what’s being done at REACH goes a long way in positively impacting needy young Liberians, some of whom the organization has groomed from very tender ages and has seen them through to high school and university levels.
Madam Livingstone, for her part thanked Veteran Ahblawoe for the donation and promised that the donated items would be used for the intended purpose. Thereafter, the Veteran Ahblawoe’s overseas membership currently visiting Liberia, along with some local members of the group visited the Barnesville campus of the Calvary Mission Orphanage, where a presentation of several food and non-food items was made.
Veteran Ahblawoe-USA lone female member of over 25 years, Madam Rachel Agnes Nebo, on behalf of the group whose name in the Kru vernacular means “used to play,” admonished the orphans, who are all students of the Calvary Mission School System, to aim for highest, adding that they can become anything they want to be in the world–“Just focus and be respectful,” she emphasized.
For his part, Calvary Mission Orphanage Administrator, M. Theophilus Kromah, expressed joy for the donation, and thanked members of Veteran Ahblawoe, stating that for their humanitarian gesture, God would replenish their resources spent in acquiring all they donated to orphans at his care-giving institution.
At the last stop on the Veteran Ahblawoe’s donation tour, the group made a presentation of 25 bags of rice and several non-food items including boxes of sardine, a double bag of sugar, toiletries, and vegetable cooking oil.
On Tuesday, Veteran Ahblawoe similarly donated several food and non-food items to three care-giving institutions including the Christian Association for the Blind (CAB), the Antoinette Tubman Cheshire Home, and the JoJo Hope House of Substance Freedom, a rehabilitation center for disadvantaged youth.
