Alpha Tamba, a physician assistant from the village of Gbandu in Liberia, joined the fight against Ebola through a local IRC partner organization, Pentecostal Mission Unlimited–Liberia.
When Ebola appeared in Lofa County in rural Liberia last spring, the disease proved devastating. Whole families were wiped out as the virus ravaged villages. Hundreds of new cases appeared every week and hospitals and health centers buckled under the strain, leaving the sick to die in their homes or on the sides of roads.