The Liberian Studies Association announces with deep sadness the passing of Yekutiel Gershoni, Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University and former President of the Liberian Studies Association. Professor Gershoni [...]
May of 2022, we will publish 65 stories and poems from 99 submissions.
Presentations on creating structures and favorable conditions that lead to a functional state can now be viewed on the LSA website.
To provide hair dressing, soap making and bean bag production skill training to 250 young adults and school age girls in the Soul Clinic Community, FOL has awarded a small grant to our in-country partner, [...]
To extend income opportunities from a new rice mill built by the Pengia Village Women’s Farming Cooperative in Bong County, FOL has awarded a small grant to our in-country partner, Kpo’ma Women, Inc., to help [...]
In honor of World Bee Day, we are throwing it back to this UN Development Program article about The beekeepers of Liberia. "With bee populations on the decline globally, small communities are playing their part [...]
"When he was growing up in Monrovia, Lekilay Tehmeh dreamed of becoming a doctor. Even when his family was forced to flee Liberia’s civil war and became refugees in Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria, that dream [...]
Nathaniel Kim served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lofa County from 2017 to 2019. His blog, Innate Musings, is full of beautifully written, funny, thought- provoking essays. He has also been a guest writer for [...]
July 1 through August 15, 2021 is when we will conduct the second of three online auctions of donated items to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Peace Corps this year to benefit the Friends of Liberia General [...]
Doorey Chung, a member of the LR-6 cohort, served in Grand Gedeh County, Liberia from 2016 to 2018. In honor of Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month in 2018, Peace Corps shared his story. Here is [...]