Refuge Place Receives FOL Grant
FOL Grant Recipient- Refuge Place Dear Friends and partners, We want thank you all for your generous support to keep the doors of Refuge Place Clinic open to pregnant women and children. In the month of November, we treated 515 patients. Of that number, we treated 124 pregnant women and [...]
FOL support reaches $36,000 with three grants for medical and community work
Friends of Liberia donations to Ebola Relief has reached the $36,000 mark this week with grants to three more organizations. Summer donations of $16,000 were split three ways for local needs that were identified by a special task force, made up of board members, officers and members who are in [...]
FOL-funded shipment arrives in Liberia
Five pallets of protective material for Phebe and Curran Hospitals in Bong and Lofa Counties Five pallets of protective materials landed in Robertsfield, Liberia, on Aug. 31, shipped by Global Health Ministries and paid for by Friends of Liberia. As you have often in the past, members of [...]
FOL aids efforts to help Liberians on the front lines of the Ebola epidemic
Friends of Liberia (FOL) with the help of its members and other supporters has contributed $20,000 to two groups working on the Ebola crisis in Liberia. We continue to receive contributions, which will go directly to groups working in the affected areas. The situation is changing daily and we rely [...]
Messages from the Liberian Executive Mansion
On Thursday, The Liberian executive branch released two documents of general interest to Friends of Liberia: Government of Liberia Launches National Action Plan against the Ebola Viral Disease Ellen Sirleaf Special State Delivered on July 30, 2014
Ebola Support Donation
Dear Members, We want our members to know that Friends of Liberia will donate $10,000 to Doctors without Borders for the specific use to help the areas and people affected by Ebola in Liberia and West Africa. In addition FOL is also donating $10,000 to Global Health Ministries. This will [...]
Help Wanted: Volunteer and Paid Opportunities to Serve Liberia
FHI 360 Scope of Work Liberia Transcript Review (PDF) Period of Performance: January 13, 2013 – January 22, 2014 Background: A 6.5-year, $16 million effort, STRIVE (Supporting Transformation by Reducing Insecurity and Vulnerability with Economic Strengthening) uses market-led economic strengthening initiatives to benefit vulnerable children by implementing four field projects [...]
Liberian teachers get a lesson in running an NGO
Early childhood grade teachers and their principals, whom FOL has trained in developmentally appropriate teaching methodology since 1999, have formed a non-governmental organization (NGO) to train other teachers in what they have learned. They have held trainings in their home schools, but have now decided to teach more teachers in [...]
We’re coming yah!
Excerpts from Stephanie Vickers... More later I have been on an internet diet...for the last 13 days. We have had no internet connection and so I have been unable to share photos or adventures and post anything on the FOL website blog. As they say here: sorry-yah! Luckily texting and [...]
The internet is down
The group of traveler's is o.k. and healthier than the internet connection at the Peace Corps training area in Kakata. Jim & Pat McGeorge are at Currin Hospital and meeting with Peace Corps Volunteers there. Ron Murtz is visiting his village. The "Firestone Babies", those who grew up at Firestone, [...]
May 4 and 5th. The journey begins
Stephanie and Carl Albrecht, Deputy Chief of Mission at US Embassy Couldn’t believe that I was getting up at 3:30 AM to travel yet again to Liberia, but I was, and things went very well from home to the airport and onto JFK until we had [...]
More photos from Liberia
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