Montserrado County, Sept. 12 -- A few years ago, residents of the suburbs of Bensonville, Montserrado County, frequently suffered from diarrhea, cholera and other water related illnesses, often unclean drinking water from unprotected sources like wells and rivers and worsened by the practice of open defecation in nearby bushes.

Today, that situation has dramatically improved. Thanks to the efforts of an international non-profit organization, FACE Africa, which has been drilling boreholes for clean drinking water and constructing improved latrines and hands washing facilities.

Over the past 12 months, FACE Africa-a US and Liberia-based non-profit organization-has successfully completed and handed over 256 improved latrines and hands wash...