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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Professor Warren Leonard d’Azevedo, an expert on the Gola people, passed away peacefully in California on Jan. 19 at age 93. He died surrounded by family, notably his wife, Kathleen Addison D’Azevedo, daughter Anya and [...]
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 [...]
FOL meets with the Ministry of Education Study Tour Delegation in Washington, DC on November 18 and 19, 2013. The trip’s theme is “Creating World Class Early Childhood Educators for Liberia” The team was led [...]
Our time is growing short (a couple more days) here, but we are still busy visiting different organizations with our pitch about early childhood educator trainings and meeting some interesting folks and hearing different stories [...]
Having taught in Harper, Cape Palmas, from 1969-71, I was determined to get back “home” as part of the FOL service trip to Liberia. Prior to leaving the U.S., I had made numerous contacts to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
