Frustrated about the level of medical and financial support they are receiving, evacuated RPCVs are circulating a petition calling for more aid. The Peace Corps typically offers medical and dental exams to volunteers before they [...]
Our partner, WE-CARE, is distributing a poster throughout Liberia to explain what each person can do to stop the spread of the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease. While home visits of the FOL sponsored [...]
In December 2019, Peace Corps Liberia reduced the number of its volunteers due to the in-country economic crisis. Three months later, COVID-19 is declared a pandemic and Peace Corps evacuated all volunteers from around the [...]
Victoria Zawitkowski joins the FOL Board in charge of outreach communication. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia from 2016-2019 teaching 10th and 11th grade Math and English.
The Ministry of Education has closed all schools, including institutions of higher learning, for one week beginning Tuesday, March 17. The US Peace Corps is suspending all operations globally and evacuating all volunteers. Posts [...]
In response to the COVID outbreak in the US, the conference will be held during the summer of 2020 at Cornell University.
For all the expectations, and inevitable failures, she did achieve something unprecedented in 70 years of leadership by Liberian men: she stepped aside for someone else when her time in power was up. —Aryn Baker
After more than 37 years, Liberia can boast a sizable number of trained land surveyors, land administrators, and forest technicians who have received training at the Forestry Training Institute in Tubmanburg.