Orphaned Liberian children ostracized by Ebola
Agencies
Published
October 9, 2014
![Promise Cooper, 16, Emmanuel Junior Cooper, 11, and Benson Cooper, 15, sit at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP Promise Cooper, 16, Emmanuel Junior Cooper, 11, and Benson Cooper, 15, sit at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f58c36dc.jpg)
![Promise Cooper, 16, has her hands cleaned with a chlorine solution by Kanyean Molton Farley, a community activist who visits Promise and her two brothers, Emmanuel Junior, 11, and Benson, 15, on a daily basis at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP Promise Cooper, 16, has her hands cleaned with a chlorine solution by Kanyean Molton Farley, a community activist who visits Promise and her two brothers, Emmanuel Junior, 11, and Benson, 15, on a daily basis at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f565d491.jpg)
![laundry hangs inside the home of the Copper children in the St. Paul Bridge neighborhood of Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP laundry hangs inside the home of the Copper children in the St. Paul Bridge neighborhood of Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f5e45ad9.jpg)
![Promise Cooper, 16, looks at Kanyean Molton Farley, a community activist who visits Promise and her two brothers, Emmanuel Junior, 11, and Benson, 15, on a daily basis at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP Promise Cooper, 16, looks at Kanyean Molton Farley, a community activist who visits Promise and her two brothers, Emmanuel Junior, 11, and Benson, 15, on a daily basis at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f53c1995.jpg)
![Promise Cooper, 16, fills a bottle with a chlorine solution with the help of Kanyean Molton Farley, a community activist who visits Promise and her two brothers, Emmanuel Junior, 11, right, and Benson, 15, not pictured, on a daily basis at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP Promise Cooper, 16, fills a bottle with a chlorine solution with the help of Kanyean Molton Farley, a community activist who visits Promise and her two brothers, Emmanuel Junior, 11, right, and Benson, 15, not pictured, on a daily basis at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f54754d6.jpg)
![Emmanuel Junior Cooper sits at his St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP Emmanuel Junior Cooper sits at his St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo-by-AP](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f53c080a.jpg)
![Princess Duo, left, and Mamie Mangoe, right, both natively of Liberia who now live in Dallas, stand holding lit candles as they pray during a service at Wilshire Baptist Church that was dedicated to Thomas Eric Duncan, in Dallas. Photo-by-AP Princess Duo, left, and Mamie Mangoe, right, both natively of Liberia who now live in Dallas, stand holding lit candles as they pray during a service at Wilshire Baptist Church that was dedicated to Thomas Eric Duncan, in Dallas. Photo-by-AP](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f53c7556.jpg)
![Pastor George Mason delivers a sermon during a vigil for Thomas Eric Duncan at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Photo-by-REUTERS Pastor George Mason delivers a sermon during a vigil for Thomas Eric Duncan at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Photo-by-REUTERS](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f5354717.jpg)
![Bishop Nathan Kortu (Left) of New Life Fellowship Church lights candles with parishioners during a vigil for Thomas Eric Duncan at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Photo-by-REUTERS Bishop Nathan Kortu (Left) of New Life Fellowship Church lights candles with parishioners during a vigil for Thomas Eric Duncan at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Photo-by-REUTERS](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/10/54365f57d489d.jpg)
In Liberia's large, deeply religious families, there is usually an aunt somewhere willing to take in a child who has lost a parent. But Ebola, and the fear of contagion and death is now unraveling those bonds. At least 3,700 children across Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have lost one or more parents to Ebola, according to the UN children's agency, and that figure is expected to double by mid-October. Many of these children are left to fend for themselves, and continue to live inside infected houses.
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Moiz Omar
Oct 13, 2014 06:02pm
This is so sad.
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