FOL Travelers Arrive in Liberia
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Recent photos from my time in Liberia
Sorry for the delay but I had some problems with my photo software but as promised I am sharing in no special order a few photos from the OMEP Conference with such dignitaries as President Sirleaf and Minister Tarpeh (MOE), lunch with the Grays and photos from a [...]
My week was plus one…
The end of the journey…a day late and a dollar short as the saying goes I apologize for the length to this entry but I had trouble with internet connections and getting it posted and I promise I will post some more photos after I get home. Anyway to recap [...]
In Liberia
Monrovia, Tuesday night, April 9, 2013 After 30 or so hours in the air and in airports I made it to Liberia and to my hotel and sort of collapsed into bed. Fighting a nagging cough and too much sitting I was happy to recline onto a bed and get some [...]
Stephanie’s April 2013 Liberia Blog
I am heading back to Liberia... On April 6 I will head to Liberia to work with the early childhood education (ECE) teacher training project again, but this time I have the privilege of sharing Friends of Liberia's longtime teacher training project at an international ECE conference from April 11-13, [...]
Green Coast Agriculture Program
Green Coast Agriculture Program will train students and instructors in gardening and will buy seeds to sell harvested crops in Kakata. Awarded $1, 450
Women Care International.
Funding a resource room for training women and girls with job skills, particularly computer, entrepreneurship and advocacy. Monrovia. Awarded $1970.00
Liberian Assistance Program
Pictured to the right are students at the Obama School in Cow Field, just outside Monrovia. Friends Of Liberia grant funding helped purchase equipment for new school.
LEAP Teacher Training
Friends of Liberia's Liberian Education Assistance Project (LEAP) has been sending U.S. early childhood teachers to Liberia annually since 1998 to train those who are teaching in the earliest grades in rural areas of central Liberia and their principals in age-appropriate teaching methods Read more
FOL Store
Before I left for Senegal, when someone would ask why I was joining the Peace Corps, my response was adequate but lacking in substance. I might have explained that I had been to Africa before and wanted to spend more time there working in development. Or I might have suggested [...]
Grants awarded September 2012
Small Grants Awarded 1. Imani House/Twe Farm on Bushrod Island~ 2. Friends Computer Institute at Phebe Compound, Bong Co. 3. National Youth Action, Inc. (NAYA) in Paynesville~