Help arrives for Tubmanburg woman; gets $100.00 not as loan but a gift!
Proverbs 3:27 “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.”
Testimony:
By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher
“No, I don’t want it pay back, it’s a blessing to be able to help those who are trying to make a difference in this world. Please let the lady know that she deserves the $100!” all the glory belongs to God Almighty.”….Yongor
After picking up a gift of US $100.00, on New Year’s Eve, for Miama Mansalley-Tarpeth, the struggling Tubmanburg single mother of 3, who had been asking for a hundred dollars loan since we first met her in April 2025, I decided to wire it and save myself money and inconvenience of driving more than two hours to drop it off.
However, days later, I changed my mind and decided instead to drive up to Tubmanburg and deliver the gift for several reasons: First, Sister Miama is unable to spell her name, and I fear I could send money to the wrong number in that I made such error last Christmas and wired money to the and it took 24 hours before discovering the mistake. I wanted to avoid that.
Secondly, I needed to see Maima and give the purse and possibly take a photograph too. But more than that, I wanted to meet her personally, find out about her three teenage boys, and also encourage her for being the breadwinner for her family, letting her understand that people like her continue to needlessly suffer because of corrupt and bad leadership Liberia continues to inherit.
Miama Tarpeh sits along Tubmanburg’s main street-where she chops and sells coconuts daily to be able to feed her family and send her three boys to school. The father of her kids, she told us in April 2025, deserted them due to hardship and they’ve never heard from him. This forced Miama to turn to buying and selling coconuts (a degrading job) in the old mining town.
Global Ekklesia first published her story July 18, at the time I was visiting Minnesota, and a benevolent Liberian Entrepreneur Mary Karnga-Dahn messaged us and said she wanted to help Miama but a search for her turned out futile. It was the rainy season and she stopped business due to heavy rainfall.
When I returned home we traveled once more to Tubmanburg to work and fortunately, we took a stroll to Miama’s business spot and found her there. It was at that point that I asked for her real name for the first time and told her we were working on another story about her plight. She had no clue we’d already published one, asking for help with $100.00 for her. She was surprised after we showed her the story.
Thereafter, we went ahead and published our second story December 20, 2025, titled: Tubmanburg’s coconut-selling single-mom found. But she’s still asking for U.S. $100.00 loan. Our story cited particularly that wealthy Liberian officials also live in the area with Miama. Notwithstanding, no one came up to help her with the money.
Bomi and Gbarpolu counties boast of the nation’s major gold and diamond belts, making them both among Liberia’s richest counties in terms of national mineral resources possession.
In fact, the area’s riches made it a fair target throughout the two brutal wars whereby both Peacekeeping soldiers and rebel factions traded cash and minerals for weapons.
But in spite of its richness, most of the region’s people like Miama remain poor. All they do now is sit in rubbles from long years of mining, staring daily at the destruction foreign iron ore companies left behind after snatching away their gold, diamond, and other minerals.
Fortunately, for Miama, another Liberian living in the U.S. State of Minnesota, Miss. Yongor Fasuekoi, read her story and grieved in heart, and wondered as to why no one could step up to help her.
“Wow! It’s sad that government officials are not willing to loan $100 to a mother who’s trying to take care of her children, and trying to make a difference in society,” Yongor wrote to Global Ekklesia in a text message and promised to wire the money.
On New Year’s Eve she fulfilled that promise, sending US $100.00, plus additional gas money so we could deliver the fund. Yongor recently gave birth to her fifth child and hasn’t yet been able to resume work but that didn’t change her mind from helping Miama.
Similarly, in December last year, Yongor extended help to Catherine Joe, an amputee, with six children, whose husband had fled leaving her alone to raise their kids. Coincidentally too, Catherine said her man abandoned their home due to hardship, and this happened at a time she was expected to go in for a medical surgery.
Catherine had the biggest farms in her village of Behneewein despite her medical condition and by the summer of December 2024, she pleaded for financial assistance through Ekklesia to purchase a water machine as her crops were dying from the heat. During one afternoon for instance, a farmer sent two men to collect his machine that Catherine had borrowed while he was hospitalized.
After a Global Ekklesia live video from one of Catherine’s farms in Behneewein, Yongor wired us $50.00 for Catherine. Still not pleased, she launched a “Go Fund Me” campaign in the U.S. asking friends and workmates to help raise additional $200.00 in order to purchase a water pump for the single mom.
The amount was eventually raised and the equipment bought. The boss of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s charity, Hon. Jackson K. George Jr., along with the foundation’s Ambassador At Large, Mrs. Linda Karim-Creevey attended the machine presentation ceremony at Behneewein a few months later.
Now, after Yongor sent the money for Miama Tarpeh during Christmas, I wanted to find out whether she expects it to be paid back, or that she did it purely on humanitarian basis.
“Now, one question here finally to you (and I know it might make you laugh). Are you giving this money to this single mom Maima as a loan to be paid back later, or is it free?” I texted her.
“Of course I’m going to laugh, because that’s a funny question,” Yongor wrote back.
She continued: “No, I don’t want it pay back, it’s a blessing to be able to help those who are trying to make a difference in this world. Please let the lady know that she deserves the $100!” all the glory belongs to God Almighty.”
After presenting the gift I asked Miama, out of curiosity if she knew God, or whether was a member of any religious Faith and she said, she’s a Pentecostal. Coincidentally, the sender of the money, Yongor Fasuekoi is also a Pentecostal.
Editor’s Note: Yongor Kokulo Fasuekoi is the daughter of editor & publisher! In addition, Yongor didn’t want Global Ekklesia to publish her gift to Miama. However, we pleaded to do so in the hope that other Liberian young people will learn about her giving and reach out to help the needy within, and beyond their own communities.
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*Move to rescue disabled woman’s dying crops in Liberia. Publisher’s daughter in U.S. is first to respond in kind
*Catherine Joe, Liberian amputee with 6 children who makes farm to live gets water pump machine
