LAP Official Cites Urgent Need For A Community Center

Posted to the web 6 April 2008

 

 
Philadelphia, April 5 - The leadership of the Liberian Association of Pennsylvania, LAP, has reiterated the need for urgent actions to secure a Liberian Community Center in Pennsylvania.

 

LAP Board Chairman, Adolphus Benjamin Jacobs and President Shiwoh Kamara said today that much improvement would be made where the Association’s activities coordinated from an ideally located head office.

 

LAP’s Coordinator, Ms. Borsu Jallah, and the Association’s General Secretary, Peansley Jah, in separate statements, further disclosed that a general clean up campaign has been planned to energize further efforts at addressing repairs and other technical concerns with which LAP’s to-be head offices in Philadelphia is faced.

 

The LAP Authorities were speaking today following the Association’s participation in a Philadelphia City-wide clean up campaign, declared by City Mayor Michael Nutter.

 

President Shiwoh Kamara and Board Chairman Adolphus Jacobs, led an array of officials including Vice President Dahn Dennis and LAP members on Woodland Avenue, in South-West Philadelphia where the team joined in the City Mayor’s clean-up call for a community voluntary action.

 

Expressing his appreciation to those who turned out, President Shiwoh Kamara said he was aware of problems associated with community members' response to calls for voluntary services. 

 

He however underscored the importance of Liberians making their presence felt within the larger Philadelphia community and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. “We know that ours is a voluntary service”, the President said “but as a people we must make a positive difference”, the President emphasized.

 

Earlier, President Shiwoh Kamara and Board Chairman Adolphus Jacobs praised what they call the “continuing availability” of former leaders of the Association, including Messrs Ben Gbolee-Weefaa, Former LAP President and Anthony Kesselly, former LAP Board Chairman.

 

The two Senior LAP officials said they have observed with appreciation the role Mr. Weeffaa and Mr. Kesselly have and continue to play in the Association. Mr. Gbolee-Weefaa cordinated the Association's clean-up effort.  He disclosed that he got a lot of support from Mr. Kesselly in the exercise.

 

Earlier, the LAP Coordinator General, Miss Borsu Jallah, disclosed that her office is launching efforts to recondition one of the rooms in the currently uninhabited building of the LAP Head Offices where limited official LAP transactions can be coordinated. Coordinator Jallah hopes this plan will be finalized following a clean up exercise at the intended office site by May ending.

 

The LAP Executive Committee is also working on plans for a Mother’s Day program, scheduled for May 10, 2008. Liberian Mothers, President Shiwoh Kamara said, will be entertained during this program which is also intended to show the Association's appreciation to what he called our 'Sweet Mothers'.