Battle Against Ebola—Liberia Aid Worker Opens Up About Horror Ravaging Africa
by Debbie Emery
PopDust.com
09/29/2014
Ebola has been an inescapable news topic in recent weeks as the deadly virus continues to spread wildly, ravaging Africa.
According to the World Health Organization, it has infected 6,242 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal, has killed 2,909, and could affect as many as 1.4 million people by January 2015 if it’s not controlled quickly.
While the statistics can be mind-blowing from so far away, what about the people who dedicate their lives to helping those in the poorest parts of the world, for whom the Ebola outbreak has now become a daily challenge?
Popdust spoke with Katie Meyer, who founded of the More Than Me in Liberia, and she offered up an insight into the depth of the horror, and how people can help.
How did you come to be in Liberia?
I first came in 2006 at age 23 and as an intern at an adult literacy programs in a remote village with an NGO. I founded More Than Me in 2009 to help get the most vulnerable girls off the street and into school. In 2013, we opened our own school, the More Than Me Academy.
Why did the situation there particularly draw you?
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