October 1 to November 15, 2021, is open bidding for our final auction cycle commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Peace Corps. All proceeds support the FOL general fund to advance Liberian aspirations. CLICK [...]
Monday, September 20th - 5pm PT / 8pm ET, join a celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Peace Corps with the Friends of Liberia! Bring your stories, wear your finest lappa, cook some palm [...]
Liberia is facing an unprecedented outbreak of COVID and we need your help to continue working alongside partners to send much needed supplies, such as oxygen regulators, to Liberia. Cori Maund & Isaac Doss, Jim & Pat McGeorge, [...]
Almost all Liberian cocoa is now sold on the bulk market for use in the cosmetics industry. Yet Liberian cocoa possesses many characteristics that appeal to specialty buyers, setting it apart from its neighboring global giants, [...]
“People are dying everywhere!” was the subject of an email message received by FOL members Angene and Jack Wilson late in June. Monrovia was experiencing a sudden spike in Covid-19 deaths due to the deadly [...]
The Liberian Studies Association announces with deep sadness the passing of Yekutiel Gershoni, Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University and former President of the Liberian Studies Association. Professor Gershoni [...]
May of 2022, we will publish 65 stories and poems from 99 submissions.
Presentations on creating structures and favorable conditions that lead to a functional state can now be viewed on the LSA website.
To provide hair dressing, soap making and bean bag production skill training to 250 young adults and school age girls in the Soul Clinic Community, FOL has awarded a small grant to our in-country partner, [...]
To extend income opportunities from a new rice mill built by the Pengia Village Women’s Farming Cooperative in Bong County, FOL has awarded a small grant to our in-country partner, Kpo’ma Women, Inc., to help [...]