Looking For Communications Volunteers
The Communications Committee is placing an urgent call on its website and on social media for PCVs, RPCVs and those who have lived and worked in Liberia and are interested in serving as a volunteer. [...]
Photo Contest For Peace Corps Liberia Office
Want to show incoming Peace Corps volunteers what Liberia looked like when you served? Kevin Fleming, Country Director for Peace Corps Liberia, is asking all FOL members to submit photos to help decorate the new Peace Corps Liberia [...]
After 24 Years, Liberian News Service Ends
Farewell & Thanks "Daily Talk" News Board in Monrovia Photo courtesy of Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA Below is FOL's announcement of the last issue of the FRIENDS OF LIBERIA NEWS DISPATCH. As head of the Indiana University Liberian [...]
First Pair of Post-Ebola Grants Awarded
On behalf of the Post Ebola Committee, I am pleased to inform our members that we have approved of funding two projects thus far. Winifred J Harley College of Health Sciences, United Methodist University, Ganta [...]
FOL Reaches $100k Goal!
Kem Opperman-Torres (@SraTorres)'s November 7 tweet shows the progress of St. Martins's fund-raising. "So proud of @STMMiddle for raising $1,273.00 for @FOLiberia for #STMDay! Service is central in The Middle. " https://twitter.com/SraTorres/status/530845086167617536 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]