A 16-year-old Liberian girl is fighting to keep her family together and healthy in her parents' home after the Ebola virus made her and her three siblings orphans.
The Associated Press reports:
Promise Cooper, 16, watched Ebola take her mother's life when she was in route to the hospital. She took on the mother role in her family a month later when her father was stricken with the disease as well.
She recalls hearing about Ebola on the radio, but when the disease killed both of her parents, and her infant brother, it was the first time she saw effects of the disease face-to-face.
Word spread quickly that the Cooper's had Ebola and no one - not even relatives - would come to visit them.
When Cooper learned her father died at the hospital, she became another check on the list of children who were orphaned due to the Ebola epidemic.
Across Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone at least 3,700 children lost at least one parent to the Ebola virus during this outbreak.
