UMB Staff Member Putu Sayeh Works with Family Foundation to Expand Clean Water Access
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In 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Putu Sayeh, a senior construction buyer with Construction and Facilities Strategic Acquisitions (CFSA) at UMB, began having regular monthly Zoom meetings with her siblings.
During these meetings, the family began discussing ways they could help citizens in their home country of Liberia, particularly the community of Sasstown. They created the Sayeh Foundation, which decided that one of the most urgent needs in Sasstown was clean drinking water for the residents. During a visit by a few Sayeh family members to Sasstown in 2023, they discovered that there were existing wells in the community that were not functioning and in need of repair and rehabilitation.
To date, the foundation has rehabilitated eight wells, as well as assisting the community with other repairs to a local church due to tropical storm damage,
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