Our new COVID-19 Task Force provides support to local Liberian NGOs and community-based organizations to help communities struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. To date, we received seven proposals from organizations seeking support, some of which [...]
Expenditures for 2019 were $154,968, an increase of 17%, which included the new adult literacy program and an increased number of small grants awarded. Indirect costs associated with fundraising include printing appeal letters twice a [...]
Two hundred families received literacy materials and hand washing supplies thanks to our partner, WE-CARE, and the generous donations of FOL Member Sally Gosline Humphrey. FOL is focusing its efforts on supporting organizations fighting coronavirus [...]
Jodi Hammer. RPCV and Career Development Specialist, provides job search advice to recently returned Peace Corps volunteers.
In December 2019, Peace Corps Liberia reduced the number of its volunteers due to the economic crisis that closed banks, suspended salaries, and reduced resources in much of the country. Three months later, the coronavirus [...]
Karlin Scudder has joined the FOL Board as Secretary. She served education postings as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2018 to 2020 in Pleebo, Salala and Paynesville.
Fourteen year FOL trustee and frequent contributor to the Liberian Studies Association. Dr. Jane J. Martin, died peacefully April 14.
Even the most privileged of countries are struggling to stop the spread of coronavirus. Which begs the question – how are developing countries, with much poorer health care systems, going to fight the transmission of [...]
WE-CARE Foundation, FOL's partner in its Family Literacy Initiative, are doing their part durning the COVID-19 outbreak to protect themselves and the families that they work with through the use of PPE and hand washing. [...]
Sharing Lessons Learned from Ebola to Defeat Coronavirus is an op-ed in The Bush Chicken by Otis S. Bundor, a contact tracer/active case finder during the Ebola epidemic.
