we are not a virus, we are from liberia. liberian women speaks

Liberian women hit back against Ebola stigma

Shoana Solomon, fed up of discrimination, tells the voice the story behind their viral social media campaign.




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Shoana Solomon's video has been viewed tens of thousands of times online [credit: Shoana Cachelle]
Ebola has killed more than  2,700 people in Liberia, making it the hardest hit of the the three West Africa countries most severely affected by the worst ever outbreak of the unrelenting virus.
Many Liberians have fled the country and some Liberian immigrants, especially those living in the United States, have become victims of what many are calling "a stigma based on fear of the unknown."
They say people from Sierra Leone and Guinea, the other two countries at Ebola's epicentre, are facing the same.
Two weeks ago, Shoana Solomon and three other Liberian women started the "I am a Liberian, not a virus" campaign, which quickly went viral. Their aim was to end the discrimination and make an important point:
That Liberians, and those from the other countries affected by the disease, are humans first.

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