Small Grants Awarded

2021

Soul Clinic Vocational and Life Skills Training

Purchase material for hair dressing, soap making and bean bag production as part of training 250 young adults and school age girls in the Soul Clinic Community of Montserrado County by Capacity For Youth (C4Y).

$1850

Pengia Village Financial Literacy Initiative

Pay for instructors’ fees, materials, equipment rental and refreshments for a 6 day intensive training program for the Pengia Village Women’s Farming Cooperative in Bong County.  In partnership with Kpo’ma Women Inc., 51 women will learn how to increase access to credit, and they will build capacities in literacy, numeracy and business skills.

$3000

2019

The Koon Town Poultry Farming Project

Community residents were hired to construct a poultry house using traditional mud bricks. A manager for the poultry house is being trained by AgriLife-Liberia’s technical team. Local school  students receive poultry management training. The students have cultivated an acre of cassava for start-up feed while awaiting the arrival of chickens.

$2000

Foundation for Women and Children Empowerment (FOWACE)

Soap production and business management training for disadvantaged women.  Graduates are given soap making oil and caustic soda to start individual businesses.

$3000

2018

Ganta United Methodist Hospital Workers Association, Ganta

Construct a fence around the care center which was partially funded by FOL

$2000

Respect Liberia, Monrovia
Set up six clubs to educate students on discrimination, sextual harassment and gender-based violence.

$2830

GrowHope Foundation

Construct four compartment toilets and handwashing stations at the Liberia Central Academy located in Jacobs Town,

$3000

SEED Global Health, Phebe

Improve access to anesthesia related written and video resources for Phebe Anesthesia Program students and faculty.
Engage multimodal teaching opportunities in the classroom and operating theatre settings.
Improve the quality of anesthesia services provided nationwide.

$2,000

2017

Liberia Returnee Network, Inc., Monrovia

Purchase 125 armchairs for students, repair a broken hand pump to ensure that students have access to safe drinking water and secure the school’s facility by installing gates with locks.

$3000

2016

Ganta United Methodist Workers Association (GUMHWA)
FOL previously funded a project request to build a caretaker center at Ganta Hospital in 2015 and GUMHWA solicited additional funds to purchase materials for the plumbing and electrical wiring this year.

$2,000

Center for Community Advancement and Family Empowerment (CECAFE), Department of Social Work at United Methodist University
Awarded  for phase II of this project to provide psycho-social support to Ebola orphans, survivors and affected children as a result of the recent Ebola epidemic in Liberia under a conceptual framework styled Community Support for Ebola Survivors (COSES). The COSES project is providing Psychosocial Support to the targeted population with emphasis on a comprehensive Case Management approach to ensure that the targeted population receives long term, coordinated support that values their individual capacity and the strength of their community to enable them reach their full potential, as they rebuild their lives from the impact of the Ebola epidemic.

$3,000

Initiative for Female Development (INFED)
Purchase 10 sewing machines for female graduates from the INFED sewing and seamstress program at Red Light and Thinker’s Village to enable them to become self-employed. The beneficiaries of the project are to pay back the cost of the machine once they begin their own sewing business.

$2,000

My Heart’s Appeal, Opposite: St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Gaye Town, Sinkor Old Road
Support rehabilitation of a well at a special needs school.

$2000

Friends of Liberia Health Project Committee
Conduct a needs assessment, collect, analyze and report data and use it to propose advancing in-service education for nurse and mid-wife educators and practitioners in Liberia.

$2000

Education First, Inc.

Construction of 4 flushing toilets and hand washing facility at Education First Academy

$2997

2015

Ganta United Methodist Hospital
Materials to build a caretaker center that will provide for short stays of relatives visiting hospital patients.

$2000

Waste Not, Inc.
Construct a roof on a larger facility that will allow for the growth of its sewing and quilting program to enable another 12-15 women to receive training. The program will be sustainable through product sales, government contracts, donations, religious sponsorships and member dues. Intention is to expand into baking and hairdressing training

$2000

Youth Coalition for Education in Liberia (YOCEL)
School materials for children affected by the Ebola crisis and to facilitate a semester-long workshop. The activities are within a project entitled Post-Ebola Student Assistance Program.

$1,640

2014

Football to Develop Destitute (FODEDE):

Purchase sewing machines as part of a project offering career training in cosmetology in Gardnersville.

$1800

Bee Keeping Venture, Inc. (BVI):  

Purchase materials to construct bee hives as part of a project to help disadvantages and vulnerable youth, also in Gardnersville.

$1998

Student Reform Initiative:  

Support a five-day entrepreneurship development program for high school youth in Paynesville.

$1450

Hope in the Harvest Missions International:  

Assist in the construction and placement of a well for a new management waste system of an agricultural education center in Ganta.

$2000

Liberian Council for Economic and Social Services (LICESS):

Purchase medical equipment and materials for clinics in Man-nao town outside Firestone Plantation at Harbel and on Barclay’s Farm in Menani Town, Margibi County.

 $2000

Mission for Education and Development in Liberia:  

Purchase textbooks for a newly established school in Zayzay Community, Paynesville.

$1000

2013

Association of Disabled Females International ADFI Website.

Establish a sewing/tailoring project for 12 disabled females. The funds will support tailoring materials and the maintenance of sewing machines and stipends for volunteer trainers.

$1300

FUEL Youth: Friends United for the Education of Liberia’s Youth

Expand a solar panel installation at a school on Swaggart Island. Funds will be used for parts and labor, shipping costs and eight laptops.

$1800

Women United to Fight Sexual Violence in Liberia
Provide support for rehabilitation programs for victims of sexual and gender-based violence in their safe home in Kakata, Margibi County through Radio messages, personal visits, a hotline number, plus sewing, cosmetology and agri-business training for girls age 10 and up.

$2000

Bosh Bosh, Inc. BoshBosh.org:

Expand burgeoning project by increasing marketing of locally-sewn bags, keeping girls in school and giving them life skills.

$2000

2012

Women Care International.

Fund a resource room for training women and girls with job skills, particularly computer, entrepreneurship and advocacy. Monrovia.

$1970

Evangelical Soul Rescue Mission.

Purchase 80 desks for a new K-4 school. Zwedru.

$2000

Education First, Inc.

Purchase instructional materials for math and science teachers at different schools. Working with faculty at Tubman University and Liberian math professor in U.S. Harper.

$2000

West Africa Youth Agenda against Corrupt Practices.

Empower youth by converting a 10 hectare plot to a rice farm and sustain it with proceeds. Near Monrovia.

$2000

Imani House/Twe Farm on Bushrod Island
Support the adult education program by covering a portion of the sewing teacher’s salary and to purchase six sewing machines to be used at two market sites (Rally Time and Duala).

$2000

Friends Computer Institute at Phebe Compound, Bong Co.

Train 20 faculty and staff of Phebe Community Lutheran School in information and technology by purchasing materials and fuel and to pay an instructor’s stipend and other incidentals.

$2000

National Youth Action, Inc. (NAYA) in Paynesville
Continue training in life skills that generate income by purchasing baking materials for 25 trainees, supplanted by other funds for rental and outfitting of shop. NAYA hopes to later provide awareness through radio programming to educate the public on issues relating to post-crisis youth and will expand with peer training to educate on drug awareness.

$1,997

March 2011

Community for Peace and Development Advocacy

Support 100 farmers in Nimba County to grow cassava and rice and develop a local farmers’ association.

$2,000.

Rise Liberia

Buy a power supply, shelving, seating, carpeting and curtains for a library in Monrovia in partnership with We Care, Library.

$2,000

National Youth Action

Enhance a farming operation that will generate income for scholarships for children in need at a secondary school in Paynesville City.

$2,000.

Corporation for Economic Opportunity

Repair buildings, build quilting frames, register with the government and enable a US partner to process payments for the quilting group in Caldwell Township.

$2,000

Green Coast Agriculture Program

Train students and instructors in gardening and will buy seeds to sell harvested crops in Kakata.

$1, 450

Teacher Consultant Group

Buy instructional materials for a three week K-3 female teacher training workshop that will provide supply kits for 150 participants in Montserrado and Margibi Counties.

$2,000

Refuge Place International

Aid in the construction of a hospital that addresses maternal mortality among the poor and destitute in lower Johnsonville and Chicken Soup Factory Town and to hire a nurse-midwife.

$2,000

September 2011

West Africa Initiative of Liberia (WAIOL) in partnership with United Methodist Church
Introduce beekeeping, snail raising and Moringa production for Liberian women in Glakapallah, Bong County.

$1988

Liberian Translation and Literacy Organization (LIBTRALO)
Sustain and develop mother tongue literacy through purchase of heavy-duty stapler to bind books in several indigenous languages.

$1900

Friends United for the Education of Liberia’s Youth (FUEL Youth)
Develop a library at pre-kindergarten-to-9th grade Christian academy on Swaggart Island in Gardnersville through purchase of shelves, tables, chairs and shipping books to Liberia.

$1975

Voice of Tappita. (Nimba County)
Purchase equipment, transportation and supplies for radio station in anticipation of general election in October 2011 and beyond.

$1950

Francis Mitchell Memorial Academy (FRANMA)
Create a reading room at a private kindergarten-to-9th grade school that utilizes teacher trainees from KRTTI (Kakata).

$1955

February 2010

Living Stone Outreach 

Construct a new kitchen to serve the residents and workers of their Women’s and Children Rehabilitation Center, an orphanage outside Monrovia.

$1000

Football to Develop Destitute (FODEDE)

Train youth in football (soccer) and life skills, including leadership, team building and networking, hopefully enabling some to earn athletic scholarships to college.

$2000

Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute (KRTTI)

Rebuild a chicken house on the school’s farm.

$2000

The Children’s Reading Center 

Partially fund “Liberia Reads”, a primary-age literacy project in four schools: Monrovia (2), Ganta and Kakata.

$2000

FUEL Youth

Build a community well and school water system on Swaggart Island outside Monrovia.

$1925.00

Community Welfare Association

Restock Zoegeh District, Nimba County, with piglets, feed, medicines and materials (called the Lorkia Cattle Farmers Association Project).

$1972.50

Samuel J. and Mary S. Mentee Foundation

Purchase materials for an early childhood education teacher training workshop, using LEAP methodology, for its future community school in Kakata.

$1800

September 2010

ZODWOCA, Inc.

Provide voting workshops for women in cooperation with other NGOs.

$1000

Mission to Liberia, Inc

Improve drinking water in Margibi County, then to others.

$2000

STAR Radio, Inc.

Purchase two motorcycles for journalist-correspondents in rural areas.

$2000

The Niapele Project:

Provide structural improvements (fence, pump for well) to center for disabled children.

$1938.80

Liberian Assistance Program, Inc.:

Purchase equipment for new school in Cow Field, outside Monrovia.

$1885

PLAN for the Children Humanitarian Aid

Provide skill and entrepreneurial training in tailoring, cosmetology and soap-making.

$1400

September 2009

African Community Exchange:

Facilitate the “Literate Liberia Movement” by providing transportation for organizers, community leaders and school personnel as well as materials and supplies to students in grades 7-12 who will teach literacy to some 3000 people in the Monrovia area, including neighborhoods and market places.

$1300

Margibi Country Women’s Association

Train women to re-establish the production of country cloth, including weaving, tailoring, needle work, design, marketing and sales.

$1985

Liberian Potters(Pottery) Association:

Purchase a kiln and related materials to enable a group of potters to become self-reliant through training more potters, providing production access for more potters and developing marketing strategies.

$1750

Visions in Action:

Distribute scientific calculators to high schools and universities in certain counties and also to educate teachers in the incorporation of calculators into the curricula and the learning process.

$1600

March 2009

YMCA

Textbooks for teachers in several cities

$2,000

YMCA

Toward completing a library in Ganta

$1,300

United Methodist University – Ganta

Provide computers and cabinets for faculty at the nursing school

$1,200

Zoduah Clan Farmers Cooperative, Cape Mount

Purchase of a rice mill

$2,000

Kakata Teacher Training Institute

Establish a farm

$1,500

East Nimba Wildlife Reserve Survey

$2,000

 United Methodist Hospital, Ganta

Workshop and In-Service Training for Nurses, Nursing Students and Staff.

$3500.

Ganta United Methodist and Ganta YMCA Schools

Education Service Project involving returned Peace Corps Volunteers.

$1,000

YMCA

Textbooks for Teachers

$1,324.19

London Enterprises – Bikes for the World

Shipping of bicycles

$2,500

September 2008

Mediators Beyond Borders

Defray travel costs for mediator.

$750

Clark Memorial United Methodist Church

Assist in a shipment of books

$500

Liberian Education Action Project

Teacher training

$2,000

Browne Academy Day Care and Elementary School

Health care feeding program, feeding program and desks, teaching materials and books

$1,500

Don Bosco Polytechnic School

Faculty Development/tuition for in-service teachers.

$2,000