ExxonMobil, Chevron Join NOCAL, Other Corporate Donors in Ebola Fight

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ExxonMobil, Chevron Join NOCAL, Other Corporate Donors in Ebola Fight
Thu, 09/11/2014 - 19:56 admin

Just Tuesday we commended the National Oil Company (NOCAL), which we described as ?the new kid on the block in Liberia?s corporate environment,? for leading this highly lucrative sector in the fight against Ebola. We urged NOCAL to ensure that the petroleum giants, which indeed consider NOCAL their local parent body, to join in the fight to expel this deadly virus from Liberia?s shores.

Yesterday, Daily Observer Business Correspondent George Kennedy told the nation that petroleum giant ExxonMobil had come forward to match NOCAL by contributing US$150,000 to the Liberia National Red Cross Society (LNRCS). The money is intended to enhance LNRCS? outreach, already in 12 of the nation?s 15 counties in the anti-Ebola crusade.

This is not the company?s first intervention in the fight against Ebola. The company?s official for governmental affairs, Nathaniel Jallah, announced during Monday?s presentation that not long after Ebola broke out in Liberia, ExxonMobil contributed US$75,000 to Plan International to support its public health efforts. So this brings to US$225,000 ExxonMobil?s contribution to the fight against the epidemic.

The Daily Observer has reliably learnt that CHEVRON, another major world player in the petroleum industry, also present in Liberia, has purchased US$200,000 worth of materials, including much needed personal protective equipment (PPE), for medical and health workers, who are in what President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called ?the frontline? of the fight against the Ebola virus...

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ExxonMobil Donates $150K to Fight Ebola

Published on Monday, 08 September 2014 22:02
Written by New Republic

The donation Monday was made to the Liberian National Red Cross Society, a key pillar of the Liberian government's response team in the fight against the killer disease.

Making donation at the Red Cross' headquarters in Monrovia, the public and government affairs manager of ExxonMobil's Liberian subsidiary, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Liberia Limited, Nathaniel Jallah it was usual that American company "support the Red Cross, other international aids organizations and the government in their efforts to eradicate Ebola in Liberia."

ExxonMobil is relatively new to Liberia, but we know how important public health is to every community," Mr. Jallah, accompanied by Office Manager Laurentine Bass, said.

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Mr. Jallah said the donation would go a long way in enabling the Red Cross carry out its Ebola-related activities of which it had always had constraints.

He called on other corporate entities to emulate the good example of the American oil company, which has left its Monrovia offices open throughout this outbreak.