One year ago, the World Health Organization declared the West African Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern; in Liberia alone the death toll exceeded 4,000. Extreme poverty, a dysfunctional health care system, and local burial rituals all Read More …
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2017 Winter-Spring Fundraising Concert
Come and experience the culture-rich, longstanding tradition of the I-Help Liberia concert! The first concert of 2017 will fall between March and the end of April, and will once again feature the Golden Voice of Liberia, Princess Fatu Gayflor. Stayed tuned Read More …
I-Help Liberia 2016 Trip Report Release
Library in Ganta Benefits from I-Help Liberia Book Donations
Over the past few years, the Liberian Mandingo Association in New York (LIMANY) and the I-Help Liberia Project have collected and delivered educational texts to schools in and around Monrovia. Thanks to these efforts, libraries at the Booker Washington Institute, Read More …
Weeks after Ebola Crisis Declared Over, NYC High School Students in Liberia to Aid Science Education
On May 9th, 2015, the World Health Organization declared Liberia the first of the “big three” African countries to be free of the deadly Ebola epidemic, which has to date claimed the lives of over 11,000 people. Sierra Leona and Read More …
Liberia’s Princess Fatu Gayflor Rocks NYC at the I-HELP Liberia Benefit Concert
On September 26, Hunter College High School had the immense privilege of hosting Princess Fatu Gayflor at the biannual I-HELP Liberia Benefit Concert. The highlight of the program, Fatu surpassed the standards she had established during previous years of fantastic Read More …