“We are here to protect the future of our children,” said the Executive Director of a group under the banner: HOPE Restored Foundation International, Maxson Kpakio.
Kpaio gave the assurance on Saturday, October 24 in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, where he launched the “No To Drug Campaign.”
The forum was organized by the HOPE Restored Foundation International, and the Base-one Checker and Intellectual Center with the sole purpose of educating the youth on danger of substance-abuse, drug trafficking, kids gambling, and Smoking Shisha.
While addressing a cross-section of citizens at Base-one Checker and Intellectual Center in Tubmanburg, Kpakio said, if Liberia is to succeed in the generation change, the country and leaders must take the lead in youth development.
By that, he said, many of the will abstain from substance-abuse, drug trafficking, kids gambling, etc.
For that, HOPE Restored Foundation International intends to discourage the youth from endangering their lives ahead of their beautiful future.
Kpakio described the youth as the future leaders, and as such, it is prudent that stakeholders put into place mechanisms to curtail substance-abuse.
The main aim and objective of HOPE Restored Foundation International is to buttress government efforts to campaign strongly, and create awareness about the danger these illicit substances pose to the lives of the younger generations.
Kpakio also spoke about the importance of campaign, which he said, have produced some good fruits. He described President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s Executive order to ban Shisha, and other dangerous substances proved that work of the organization is not in vein.
He further informed the gathering that since he started the advocacy, there has never been any financial support from anywhere, but said, the future of the youth is what matter.
Kpakio revealed how he is to ensure that illicit substances are ban, or extinct from the local market
He meanwhile, called on the residents to see the illegal substances as “harmful to the future of the next generations.”
He also admonished stakeholders to join the campaign to make the country better for all.
The residents commanded HOPE Restored Foundation International for the effort, and called on Mr. Kpakio to continue pressing forward to ensure that the ban on those dangerous substances are pass into law to ensure that illegal substances are eliminated for good.
