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The Rhode Island Council of Churches is sending aid to an Ebola-stricken Liberia.
CRANSTON, R.I. - The Rhode Island Council of Churches is working with a Liberian congregation to make sure that the people in a suburb of Monrovia get the nutrition they need.
Organizers of the fundraiser said they have already raised over $1,000 dollars which will be wired to Liberia so that a church there can buy food - mainly rice and beans - in bulk and feed the masses as they continue to battle the effects of Ebola in the region.
"One of the things that became clear to us is that many of the people that aren't suffering from Ebola are still suffering because the systems have broken down," said Rev. Dr. Don Anderson of the Rhode Island Council of Churches. "After all the years of civil war, the systems are shaky anyway and the presence of this Ebola epidemic has created even a worse crisis and so what's happened is a lot of people are hungry and starving."
The Council of Churches says that it will continue to raise and send money to Liberia for the foreseeable future.
