The President of Liberia National Rural Women Ma-kabeh Monger is encouraging rural women to launch a holistic campaign in various communities aimed at tackling drugs and substance abuse.
Speaking Tuesday, October 15, 2024 during the program marking the celebration of International Rural Women, Monger said she plans to launch a holistic anti-drug awareness campaign in the fifteen counties of Liberia, which will enable mothers to lead the charge in getting their children off drugs.
‘’Please, I don’t want you referring to our children on drugs as unserious and dirty because they have families like you. The same pain you took, is what the other lady took, and so, please be your sister’s keeper,” she said.
According to Monger, mothers are the ones who give birth to, and breastfeed to grow into adults; therefore they have the power to help to get them from using drugs.
On Tuesday, the Liberia National Rural Women joined the world in the celebration of International Rural Women’s Day under the theme: Rural Women Confront Global Cost-Of-Living Crisis.
During the celebration, mothers paraded the Sinkor Avenue with a musical band playing traditional songs, with the hope that the future of Liberia is still possible with the involvement of women.
Monger said there is no county in Liberia that does not have ghettos and drug addicts, and it was about time that mothers put their feet down in their various communities to combat drug proliferation.
Monger said that Liberia is gradually losing a whole generation of youthful leaders to drugs, and this poses serious threats to the health, security, peace, protection and wellbeing of the state and its people.
“I want you people to launch a campaign to rescue our children in your various communities. I don’t want you to make confusion with them. You have to make friends with them because some of them are into drugs because of peer pressure. Tell them, my child, this thing you are doing is not good and they will listen,’’ Monger told fellow women.
She called for rural women to lead a joint anti-drug awareness in Liberia’s fifteen counties to address what she described as pandemic.
