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Blue Bag Media
FM grad
provides aid to teachers, kids in Liberia
GREENVILLE – Jordan Pridemore, 2008 graduate of Franklin Monroe High
School, has a passion for travel. She started with trips out of state
while in high school but quickly graduated to trips abroad, mostly to
Europe. But she’d never been to Africa until this summer…
She and her friend, Keith Rodgers, took a humanitarian mission trip to
Liberia, Africa. They were there during the Ebola outbreak, arriving
back in the U.S. on July 27. “We got home the day before the country
was quarantined,” she said. Was she worried? “No. To get Ebola you have
to exchange bodily fluids… more people die of malaria each year than
have died from that.” She added there was no outbreak in the part of
Liberia they were in.
Pridemore said they were part of a group of 20 teachers, “Hope 2
Liberia,” sent there by Harvest Christian Fellowship. Their job was
two-fold: train teachers and provide filters for clean drinking water.
They trained 120 teachers and showed people how to use 100 filters,
each with the ability to provide clean water for thousands of people.
“It was frustrating in that the problems there are so enormous,”
Pridemore said. “They’ve been doing this (Hope 2 Liberia) since 2009,
although it was the first time they sent teachers.” They weren’t really
sure what to do, so they just started… adapting as necessary to get the
job done. Three out of five kids in Liberia die because of bad drinking
water...
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