Expenditures for 2019 were $154,968, an increase of 17%, which included the new adult literacy program and an increased number of small grants awarded. Indirect costs associated with fundraising include printing appeal letters twice a [...]
Jodi Hammer. RPCV and Career Development Specialist, provides job search advice to recently returned Peace Corps volunteers.
Karlin Scudder has joined the FOL Board as Secretary. She served education postings as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2018 to 2020 in Pleebo, Salala and Paynesville.
Fourteen year FOL trustee and frequent contributor to the Liberian Studies Association. Dr. Jane J. Martin, died peacefully April 14.
WE-CARE Foundation, FOL's partner in its Family Literacy Initiative, are doing their part durning the COVID-19 outbreak to protect themselves and the families that they work with through the use of PPE and hand washing. [...]
Sharing Lessons Learned from Ebola to Defeat Coronavirus is an op-ed in The Bush Chicken by Otis S. Bundor, a contact tracer/active case finder during the Ebola epidemic.
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 [...]
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 [...]
