Dear FOL Members and Supporters, Hello from your new FOL president! You may know that after fourteen years of outstanding leadership as FOL president, Stephanie Vickers stepped down at the end of 2016. We have [...]
Enjoying the FOL Meet and Greet in November (from left: Former President Kevin George, Incoming President Sarah Morrison, Outgoing President Stephanie Vickers, Former President Pat Reilly) Dear Friends, This will be my final [...]
Friends of Liberia was honored to receive the Loret Miller Ruppe Award for Outstanding Community Service from the National Peace Corps Association at their Peace Corps Connect Conference in Washington, DC in September. Check out some [...]
Local Liberian news outlet, the Bush Chicken, covered the ceremony in Monrovia and talked to participants and organizers involved in the FLI program. Click here to check it out.
Friends of Liberia will be honored at the NPCA’s Peace Corps Connect Conference for its work to help combat the Ebola epidemic in 2014-15. Along with Friends of Sierra Leone and Friends of Guinea, FOL [...]
Do you work in the health field or know someone who does? Peace Corps' Global Health Service Partnership program expanded to Liberia this year and they are looking to fill assignments departing next summer. This [...]
It was about this time of the year 30 years ago that Liberia’s Peace Corps volunteers started a little social group called Friends of Liberia. The idea was to get together once in a while [...]
At the request of our wonderful Family Literacy Initiative (FLI) partner, Dr. Miriam Westheimer, Director of HIPPY International, HIPPY USA conducted a supplies drive during their recent national conference. HIPPY staff and families from all [...]
FOL’s Barbara Kamara and HIPPY-International director Dr. Miriam Westheimer have arrived in Liberia to launch the Family Literacy Initiative (FLI). They join our implementing partners at We Care Foundation in Monrovia, Michael Weah and Yvonne [...]
FOL has launched its most ambitious education project to address the literacy crisis in Liberia. Almost half of Liberians cannot read adequately and at least 40 percent are illiterate, according to recent UNICEF statistics. This [...]
