Liberia needs you! The devastation of civil war, suppression of peoples, corruption in leadership all have worked to reduce our nation to one of the poorest in the world today.
We need your compassion, your expertise, and your faith.
Liberia is struggling! As a nation we are faced with a Gross Domestic Product which is 1/8 of pre-war levels of the 1980s. Unemployment is around 75%. 65% of our people are functionally illiterate. The majority are working in subsistence farming or petty production, struggling just to survive. Close to 50% of our people live on less that 1 US dollar a day. We have one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancies and infant mortality.
The Liberian church is struggling. We are torn apart by greed, power and religiosity. Many denominations are going through power struggles fighting for resources and membership.
As families we are struggling. Many of us are still grieving the loss of family members from death or separation by the war. Our living conditions lend themselves to disease and security risks. Less than 10% of us have access to electricity. Most of our roads and bridges were destroyed, and the railway system has not functioned for 20 years. Ground telecommunications ceased completely in February 2005.
There is a crisis of housing, both in the cities and in rural areas, making it difficult to recruit teachers, doctors or nurses. Only 32% of households have access to safe drinking water and only 24% access to sanitary facilities. There is one doctor for every 65,000 people in country. High blood pressure, typhoid, malaria, stomach ulcers, and hepatitis are chronic problems among us.
Our youth are dyingbecause of drugs, violence, bad abortions. They are resorting to violence and extortion to make a living. They have no respect for the church or the Word of God.
Our children are often unable to attend school. Only half of our children and youth are receiving any schooling. The war destroyed about 70% of the school buildings. Only 35% of boys and 27% of girls starting grade 1 reach grade 5.You find them selling water on the street to survive and some are being traded as commodities for personal gain. Others are sickly and stunted because of malnutrition.
But deep down in our hearts we have HOPE! We know that there is a better day coming. Your gifts of kIndness are received with thanks to God for He has not forgotten us in our struggles.
Our prayers are for God’s peace and justice to prevail in Liberiaso we can know Freedom and live without Fear. We remember God’s word and it is our HOPE. We remember God’s promises and they revive us and comfort us.
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