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When you look into the eyes of the children at the elementary school in Careysburg, Liberia, it’s easy to think of Jesus’s eternal love for them.
“He said, ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of God,’” said Elder S. Gifford Nielsen, President of the Africa West Area of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “And that’s what we should do. And that’s what we are doing here in Liberia.”
Elder Nielsen and his Second Counselor, Elder Alfred Kyungu, spent this past week observing the fruits of the work of the World Food Programme (WFP) in various parts of Liberia. The Church of Jesus Christ is helping fund WFP’s global efforts to address food insecurity.
In Liberia, nearly 84% of families live on less than US$1.25 a day, and 47% of households are food insecure. This is due in part to a 14-year civil war (1989–2003) that crippled national infrastructure and basic social services.
Elder Nielsen and Elder Kyungu joined World Food Program USA President and CEO Barron Segar to observe the home-grown school feeding program supported by WFP, and took some time to assist in serving meals to school children in Careysburg (about 20 miles east of Monrovia) on Wednesday, January 17, 2024.
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