L i b e r i a
Population: 3.98 Million
Total GDP: 1.353 Billion
GDP per person: $421.70
Orphans: 340,000
From Downpours to
Brighter Futures
"A roof over your head" is often shorthand for having the basics in life. In Liberia, that shelter was crumbling overhead.
Lifesong for Orphans helps orphans find families and build lives of purpose by adapting its approach to each community it serves. In South Korea, that means mentoring young adults aging out of orphanages. In Ukraine, it means training program graduates to run farms and greenhouses that help fund the ministry itself, a model that shifted to refugee and trauma care in Poland once war broke out. Lifesong meets each community where the need is greatest.
In Liberia, the greatest need was orphan care and education. Lifesong built a complex to be home for 80 children (40 girls and 40 boys) in Marshall, 45 minutes outside Monrovia. Jobs are scarce here, and most parents never finished middle school, so they also built a school serving nearly 600 children from the surrounding community. A vocational college teaches trades like construction, electrical work, and cosmetology: skills that open doors to a future when university is out of reach. LEARN MORE
Latest News from RetailROI Liberia Projects & Trips
Kids build their own school addition in Liberia You've all heard the old adage, "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well those words could not be more apropos with the latest update from one our projects in Liberia. read more
Graduation in Liberia Just a quick story to brighten your day. Recently the RetailROI School built specifically from SuperSaturday sponsorships from Intel and HP held their graduation. First in line in this picture is a special young lady named Weedor that lost her that lost her parents in the Ebola crisis and she was tiny. read more
RetailROI works with on-the-ground partners in fight against Ebola. RetailROI Lifesong Marshall School Case Study read more