Help Us Celebrate 3 Upcoming Anniversaries!
We are kicking off two years of events to celebrate: The Peace Corps 60th Anniversary in 2021 The Friends of Liberia 35th Anniversary in 2021 The Peace Corps Liberia 60th Anniversary in 2022 You are [...]
Donor Feature: RPCVs Lyn and John Kucij
August 2020 was Lyn and John Kucij's 50th wedding anniversary, which they celebrated with a few family members in their backyard. They were shocked when their son, Noah, gave them a card which listed several dozen [...]
Referendum Election
Liberians are voting on two referendums on 8 December 2020: Shortening the presidential term to 5 years Repealing the dual nationality ban.
Thomas-Greenfield to be Biden’s UN ambassador
Obama's former ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is Biden's choice to be his ambassador to the UN. President-elect Biden is planning to elevate the post of U.N. ambassador to Cabinet level.
Searching for Your Liberian Stories
Did you ever want to publish your story or poem? Here’s your chance. To honor Peace Corps Liberia’s 60th Anniversary in 2022, FOL has several initiatives planned, including a published anthology of brief, true Liberian [...]
Linda Thomas-Greenfield joins Biden Transition Team
The former US Ambassador to Liberia is now a volunteer member of the Joe Biden Agency Review Team working on transitioning the US Department of State. She was appointed by former President Barack Obama in [...]
Jerry John Rawlings, former president of Ghana
After a short illness, Jerry Rawlings died at age 73 in a hospital in the capital of Ghana, Accra. "Liberia remembers his immense contribution to the attainment and sustainment of peace during the dark days [...]
Two Liberian organizations raise awareness about COVID with FOL grant
The Community Women’s Initiative for Children of Ebola Victims (COWICEV) and the Positive Change Women and Girls Initiative (POCHAWOIN) were the first joint-group to receive a COVID-19 project grant. Now they've begun their implementation. Focusing [...]
Watch the amazing wildlife of Grebo-Krahn National Park in Liberia
The Wild Chimpanzee Foundation filmed the critically endangered western chimpanzee, Diana monkey, King colobus, and pygmy hippopotamus. The lighting and clarity of these species is incredibly rare, as noted by our Member-At-Large, Richard Nisbett: [...]
Chocolate Made in Liberia
Redimere Chocolates was established to help students pay their school fees by making chocolate products from locally grown cocoa beans. It all started in 2017 when some students and staff in the Agriculture Department at [...]