Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

I earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.

Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.