In Todee District, poverty means dreams are hardly achieved, and decades of neglect have resulted in basic social services such as safe drinking water, decent health facilities, and high schools being in short supply. But poverty in Todee District, Montserrado’s largest district, with 475 towns and villages, means Odaphus could not raise the necessary funds to pursue higher education. The World Bank estimates that 50 percent of Liberians live below the poverty line and a sizable number live in extreme poverty. Nearly half of Todee inhabitants are born in poverty, then live in poverty and die in poverty. Nothing has changed, no electricity, and no roads,” says Watta Flomo, 65, of Konah Town, Todee District.

Source: Daily Observer May 19, 2022 05:45 UTC