Today we’d like to introduce you to Pinky Bemah.
Hi Pinky, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
As a child, I grew up in a community were the rich and poor didn’t mixed. I used to visit the Bassa town across from where we lived and shared with them whatever I had. I watched my late father on fridays buying frozen food and candies including cookies that was one of the reasons why I would want to travel with him to his farm in Bong county. Dada would stopped along the road and shared with the little children and they would be so happy. In 1998 after the war I decided to take a forty footer container home with everything in it for my dad to live comfortably,and when I came home and saw the desperation on the faces of my people, I had to do something, and that’s when I started Adopt a Village for Christmas. Every December we will purchase things for children in other villages who lives in the most remote areas and take it to them on Christmas morning. Seeing the joy on their faces told me that we did the right thing by not giving our children Christmas,but sharing Christmas through Adopting a village. In 2016 we received the worst news ever from the President of the university where our son attended,only to informed us of his passing which made all the news channels national and international because he was a football player who passed away on at the university after practicing. I had my personal time with God, and that’s when I found my purpose in life and that’s by serving those less fortunate. I started from my dad’s village of twelve huts to now fifty homes with zinc, hand pump, three toilets around the town a elementary school, a church , every home has solar lights. Our commissioner changed it from a village to a town. In Monrovia while going to my farm I saw about thirty women busting rocks with their hands and I showed the video on social media, we were able to raised over seven hundred and I purchased thirty wheel barrows with safety equipments for the ladies. Feeding Peter’s Kids, and Tree Of Life Foundation has helped built over seventy hand pumps in various towns and villages. We have helped with three roads which makes it easier for the villages. We have had men and women including babies have hernia surgeries one hundred patients. We have built homes for our seniors and given water pump to our gardeners including fertilizer. We have increased rice farming by providing rice machine and sugarcane machine. We have given the court,and our villages solar street lights. We have also provided school books to over fifty schools. We have also provided teachers with pay because they were not being paid by the government. We have also have immunization for the children in the various towns and villages. We have also paid tuition for students from elementary to university, plus fed the children ,and elders monthly. We have hard to reached places sometimes we walked for two hours. We still have to pay teachers monthly to teach students in towns and villages, I’m also helping students at the seminary. We have also built three elementary schools. Our goals for this year is to see every child in school and every village have street lights and easy access to clinics.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
When we stated Feeding Peter’s Kids, I found our neighbors and friends were very supportive in donating their new and used clothes, toys, bikes, and other items which included cash and with that we were able to help in feed children and elders in four counties. As we were feeding people in West Africa (Liberia ) Tree of Life Foundation was feeding people in North Atlanta. Some of the struggles were difficult to reach places where we had to walked two hours to share with the villagers. No safe drinking water and toilets. As the COVID Pandemic came and we were all in our homes , Tree Of Life Foundation and Feeding Peter’s Kids took it upon themselves to feed the homeless in North Atlanta.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I used to work for Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratory Out Patient.
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
To remain humble and loyal
Contact Info:
- Email: 1treoflife@gmail.com
- Facebook: Feeding Peter’s kids
- Other: https://1tolf.org
