Modalities have been worked out between the Jomah B. Samuels Care Foundation (JBS Care Foundation), Liberia’s fast-growing not-for-profit, and the U.S. firm, Woods Services Foundation, for the former to serve as recruiting agent to hire Liberians for jobs in the United States of America.
Located in the City of Langhorne, the State of Pennsylvania, the USA, Woods Services Foundation provides funds for Woods Services, a human service company, and related entities to further enhance innovative and comprehensive and integrated health-and-behavior, education, workforce, and care management services.
The Founder and CEO of JBS Care Foundation, Jomah B. Samuels, among several others, recently completed Woods Services’ Social Innovative Lab, a prerequisite of being an implementing partner to the U.S.-based firm.
Following the completion of the Social Innovative Lab, in a communication dated January 16, 2022, and addressed to the Founder and CEO of JBS Care Foundation, the President of Woods Services Trustee and CEO of Woods Services Foundation, Tine Hansen-Turton, disclosed the Woods Services Foundation Board of Trustees’ decision to support the International Workers Friends and Family Project through funding from Woods Services’ budget over a three-year period.
The International Workers Friends and Family Project is an initiative of the Woods and Brian’s House in the U.S. that seeks to address staffing crisis by recruiting internationally among staff’s friends and family, using Green Card program for a total of 50 people over a three-year period.
What this means is, since Samuels currently serves Woods Services as Senior Program Analyst, and through his innovation his organization, the JBS Care Foundation, has entered into partnership with Woods Services for the implementation of the International Workers Friends and Family Project, his Foundation is now charged with the responsibility of recruiting Liberians to work in the U.S.
Hansen-Turton informed Samuels that the proposal for the International Workers Friends and Family Project has already been approved and incorporated into a larger project, adding that Woods Services plans to support the cost of an immigration law firm, as well as travel to two countries, Liberia and Nigeria, for recruiting purposes, travel for families, and a limited housing and transportation allowance.
She further informed the JBS Care Foundation CEO that, as the project moves into the implementation phase, there will be monthly check-in meetings led by Woods Services’ Social Innovations Partners CEO, Nick Torres, for the purpose of helping to move the project forward, provide tangible support and guidance, and ensure that linkages are made across Woods Services and its affiliates to provide support.
Phase one of the Woods Services’ sponsored international domestic workers program is a pilot project, which will recruit 50 international workers to be absorbed from Africa and other parts of the world, into the U.S. job market over a three-year period.
There are prospects that the number of recruits may increase from 50 to 200 in the coming years, provided the work ethics of the first batch of recruits conform to internationally accepted standards and norms.