River Gee County Senator Mathew N. Jaye has hailed the Honorary Consul General of India to Liberia, Mr. Upjit Singh Sachdeva, for the distribution of cooked food to disadvantaged Liberian youth.
In a weekend interview with reporters at his Capitol Building Office in Monrovia, Senator Jaye, who is the Senate Committee Chairman on Labor, said the feeding initiative by the Honorary Consul General of India to Liberia, who is generally referred to as Jeety, must not go unnoticed as it deserves serious commendation by all well-meaning Liberians, including public and non-public officials.
“It is always prudent to acknowledge the good works for humanity like what Jeety is doing. By giving Jeety his flowers, I believe will motivate him to do more for our people, especially those who cannot afford. We must understand that the government cannot do everything, and hence, if someone is buttressing the government’s efforts, that person must be hailed,” the River Gee lawmaker asserted.
“The feeding ingenuity by Jeety could not have come any better time than now when Liberia and the world at large are vigorously fighting the deadly Coronavirus disease, which has adversely crippled the countries around the world economically; therefore, the gesture by the prominent Indian diplomat and businessman to disadvantaged Liberians, who cannot afford a meal a day, is prudent and in the right direction,” the River Gee lawmaker pointed out.
He then called on other philanthropists and people of goodwill to emulate the extraordinary gesture by the Honorary Consul General of India to Liberia.
Jeety has so far fed over 100,000 disadvantaged youth in Monrovia and its environs since he embarked on what has been described as an unprecedented humanitarian gesture in the country.
The distributions are done normal week days—Monday to Friday—and are carried out at some of the country’s most fierce ghetto communities where the disadvantaged youth gather for rest.
Besides his much publicized feeding initiative, Jeety has also distributed over 7,000 masks for use by the underprivileged Liberians in a bid to support the government’s efforts in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic in the country.
In an interview with the Voice of America (VOA) Africa Service recently in Monrovia, the prominent Indian diplomat and businessman described the hunger level among the needy Liberians as the greatest ever he has seen in his 34 years of stay in Liberia.
“The hunger I have seen among the underprivileged Liberians, I have never seen that type of hunger. I have been living in Liberia for the last 34 years of my life. I have not seen people hungry for a plate of food like that before. A hungry man is an angry man; if they don’t have food, they will be vulnerable to society,” he asserted.
However, Jeety underscored the need to curtail such feelings among them in a bid to save the society.