International community must save us from ebola’s terrifying clutches

In the dark times that now engulf Liberia, many people have asked themselves “Who do we turn to?” I have always enjoyed my work with WaterAid across the borders of Liberia and Sierra Leone, to offer poor and excluded people a chance of a better life through access to the basics: clean water, a safe toilet and hygiene. But today, living here in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, all I feel is fear: fear that a relative may contract Ebola; fear that a close friend may die of it; fear that our vital work will be held up and fear that I may not even finish writing this piece. So far, no one on our WaterAid team has contracted the virus but the rate at which the disease is claiming lives, and the lack so far of a vaccine or cure or an effective approach to eradicating the virus