To all new RPCVs: Welcome home and thank you for your service!
In December 2019, Peace Corps Liberia reduced the number of its volunteers due to the in-country economic crisis. Three months later, COVID-19 is declared a pandemic and Peace Corps evacuated all volunteers from around the [...]
Recent RPCV Takes on FOL Communication Post
Victoria Zawitkowski joins the FOL Board in charge of outreach communication. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia from 2016-2019 teaching 10th and 11th grade Math and English.
Schools Close and Peace Corps Withdraws due to Pandemic
The Ministry of Education has closed all schools, including institutions of higher learning, for one week beginning Tuesday, March 17. The US Peace Corps is suspending all operations globally and evacuating all volunteers. Posts [...]
Liberian Studies Conference 2020 Postponed
In response to the COVID outbreak in the US, the conference will be held during the summer of 2020 at Cornell University.
Iron Lady Sirleaf Honored by Time Magazine
For all the expectations, and inevitable failures, she did achieve something unprecedented in 70 years of leadership by Liberian men: she stepped aside for someone else when her time in power was up. —Aryn Baker
