We help get girls off the street and into school in one of the world's most notorious slums in Liberia, West Africa.

Small-scale mining is a significant economic sector in Liberia, employing up to 45,000 people - ten percent of whom are women. The challenge is to ensure that miners earn sustainable livelihoods, ameliorate hazardous working conditions and access education and other necessities for their families. This project will create a revolving loan fund so that the miners can purchase the necessary tools to increase their productivity, and. financial management training so they can improve their skills.

IBREA, in partnership with Liberia's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, will provide two scholarships for IBREA's "World Youth Leadership Program" to two selected youngsters from Liberia. The goal is for them to be trained and become a part of the IBREA team that will provide Brain Education to war-affected children in Liberia during a countrywide program in 2012-2014. This project also includes a field assessment and evaluation in preparation of the countrywide program.

CAMES provides free education to over 450 children in Liberia who have relocated from the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana as well as students who were internally displaced during the civil war.

This project supports primary education for 37 girls in the mountainous regions of Bong and Margibi counties, Liberia. Funds provide school scholarships, uniforms, books, and school supplies. We recently had 10 of our high school seniors graduate after supporting them for three years! We are hoping to admit 10 new girls to the program as soon as we have raised sufficient funds. We are also supporting the college education of one of our girls who graduated high school in June 2011.

This project provides basic literacy, vocational skills training and counseling for raped and human trafficking girls in Monrovia, Liberia.

Project will train 300 rural Liberians, mostly women, who have not attended formal schools to read and write; they will also learn about democracy, peace, and human rights, mainly using volunteers.

STAR Radio provides all of Liberia with independent news and information 14 hours a day, much of it live. STAR is a top "brand" in Liberia, allowing it to rapidly grow new cost recovery activities.

This project supports a women's association based in the West Point Township in Liberia in addressing the humanitarian needs of its community, with special attention on women and children.