Faith at ONE blogger Joe Mason recently traveled to Monrovia, Liberia as part of his work as a freelance journalist. Read how his trip ended up teaching all about energy poverty, a lack of access to the energy power systems that are necessary to sustain health and education services as well as economic growth. My first experience with
The day of reckoning has come round yet again. On behalf of the world, the United Nations has set up a process for thinking about the next big thing to succeed the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) due to end two years.
This was originally posted on ONE’s Africa blog. ONE has a team in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city, where the UN’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is meeting this week. Building where the High Level Panel is taking place in Monrovia. This Panel, co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf asked two “million dollar” questions today in her op-ed for the London Times: “Why should Western countries continue to support developing nations at a time of downturn, when these funds might be spent at home?” and “What benefit is there when the flow of aid never seems to end?” RELATED:
Junior Toe, founder of the Community Youth Network Program. Photo credit: Morgana Wingard Last week, I had the incredible opportunity to travel with ONE to Liberia, and I wanted to share some of the remarkable experiences I had with all of you. Since 1980, Liberia, Africa’s oldest republic, has been plagued by civil war. It
Though I only spent a few days in the Liberian capital of Monrovia this past summer, the narrative of a country racked by nearly two decades of civil war wove its way through almost every place I visited and in the stories of those I met along the way. Watch Pray the Devil Back to
Liberian elections. Photo courtesy of United Nations in LiberiaLiberians defied the rains this week and turned out in the thousands to participate in the country’s second election since it emerged from a 14-year civil war in 2003. This year’s elections are historic for Liberia, as they are the first Liberia-controlled elections. They are being described
While in Monrovia, Liberia earlier this month, I had the opportunity to visit with some amazing women at the Sister Agnes Maternity Clinic. Located in the Gardnersville area of Monrovia, Sister Agnes was named after the civil war for Sister Agnes Mueller, one of five American nuns killed there. The building was vandalized and looted
Part of our job here at ONE is to show you the living proof that smart aid is working in the world’s poorest places. So, when we saw this op-ed in the Washington Post by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, we had to share it with you. In her piece, President Johnson-Sirleaf commends the US’
I recently spent some time in Definah, Liberia. Definah, literally translated from the local language to mean “in front of the bush,” is a small village about 80 miles outside Liberia’s capital city Monrovia. This small community is living proof of the tremendous progress Africa has witnessed in recent years in the fight against preventable
In Liberia’s capital of Monrovia, I had the pleasure of meeting Chid Liberty, the energetic co- founder of the Liberian Women’s Sewing Project. Chid’s family owns Vamoma House, located on one of Monrovia’s biggest boulevards, an imposing multi-story building painted in faded light blue and cream. During the Civil War, Vamoma House was occupied and
I’m going to throw it out there…I’m a farmer groupie. I thrive on fresh, local veggies, getting knee-deep in the dirt, and seeing the fruits of my labor. So, when I found out I would be visiting an innovative farm program in Bensonville, the capital of Montserrado County in Liberia, suffice it to say I
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