Out Run EBOLA: awareness/protection for children

The THINK Safe Home and Juvenile Home continue to provide shelter and protection

• THINK safe and juvenile homes presently have 13 residents (3 boys under-five, and 10 girls) 
• Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, THINK has joined in the awareness efforts in our shelter and in the community. The children have a good understanding of what Coronavirus is, how the virus spreads, and how it can be prevented. They have been taught to make face masks by their Social Worker, using African fabric, and are enjoying creativity as they make their masks.
• The State of Emergency was pronounced by the President of Liberia that took effect on April 10, 2020, and will last for 60 days, depending on the trend of new cases being reported by the Incident Management Team of the Ministry of Health and the National Public Health Institute of Liberia. As of May 11, 2020, there is a total of 211 confirmed cases, Active confirmed cases: 106, and 20 deaths.
• During this State of Emergency, Donations of food and non-food items have been received from a local NGO, Teach For Liberia, a Go-Fund-Me donation page was set up online by HEAL, Inc. to raise support for two safe homes in Liberia, THINK Safe Home and Women Aid, Inc Safe Home.

We thank you, to all of you, our donors and partners for continued support during these difficult times.

Happy New Year, 2020!

• THINK safe Homes have 19 residents, with 0 new admissions during this reporting period. 
• Age disaggregation: (0-5) = 1, (6-12) = 1, (13-17) = 17, (>18) = 0.
• Cases: Rape 1, Human Trafficking 1, Abandoned 4, Protection 12, Lost & Found 1
• The children have been involved in their regular educational activities, receiving psychosocial support and counseling, engaged in creative arts and recreational activities. The residents were taken for a field trip to the beach where they had a picnic and played games, the adolescent girls swam at the edge of the ocean while the little ones swam in a blow-up pool that had ocean water filled into it.
• THINK continues to participate in networking activities with other local and international partners. THINK participated in an exercise of mapping Human Rights institutions in Liberia that monitor human rights in the country. 
• As a member of the Women’s NGO Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL), THINK also participated in awareness creation in one community school in Montserrado County, and was one of the WONGOSOL members selected to visit three safe homes in operation in the midst of serious economic challenges in Liberia. The three safe homes are situated, one in Montserrado County and two in Margibi County. The three safe homes visited, were  the THINK Safe Homes, the Women Aid Safe Home, and the Safe Home operated by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. The visit was to assess the living condition of the residents and to interact with the residents. The Network donated food items to each of the homes.
• THINK is part of a group of 25 stakeholders of civil society that were turned over to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection by IRC in December 2019.
  

We are extremely grateful to our faithful donors and partners for continuing to donate to THINK Liberia and helping us to close 2019 with smiles on the faces of our beneficiaries. We wish all of you a very prosperous new year and new decade.