Liberian Programs

Maternal and Child Health Care Clinic

Imani House's first Clinic was opened in 1993 and was nothing more than a lean-to tent. Since then it has grown to become an actual brick and mortar facility and serves 14,000 women & children annually.

Visitors to the clinic come for a wide array of services including:

  • Pre and post natal care
  • Child birth
  • Family planning services
  • Donations of care packages for newborns
  • Wound care and other first aid
  • Prophylactic and other preventative measures
  • Dietary guidance
  • Workshops on communicable diseases and their prevention
  • Treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases
  • Referrals to hospitals for more advanced medical needs

Adult Education

The Imani House Liberia Adult Education Program provides free reading, writing, science and math classes each year to over 300 Market Women who attend our free literacy classes. Classes are held in or adjacent to the some of the largest markets in the capital city, Monrovia, including  Rally-Time Market and Duala Market. We also hold classes at  VOA, Claratown and other locations throughout the city.

Building women's literacy skills and self-reliance is at the core of Imani House’s mission. Educated women are more inclined to work to improve their lives, start or better manage their businesses and prioritize education for their children and ensure they know the importance of a good education. Educated women are also more vocal and involved in the improvement of their communities and with the election of former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf  , women are more inspired to become educated and realize the importance of education to the future of the country.

Liberia's rate of illiteracy  is over 68% according to a report commissioned by the Montserrado County Development Agenda. A 2007 Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund report states that a survey conducted by a Liberian consulting firm in 83 markets where women work showed that approximately 50% of the 204,000 Liberian Market Women serve as heads of households and yet have no formal education. With an average family size of six to eight children and no literacy or civic skills, it is hard to imagine that the children will escape the cycle of poverty. This is where Imani House's programs come in to provide tangible educational services which besides the other obvious positives also builds our students' esteem as we work diligently to assist them in meeting their personal goals.

Women's Health Education Manual Project

This project is in it's 3rd year and was created with the assistance of long time partners Proliteracy and Global Giving (U.S. & U.K). In addition, the Ethelwyn Doolittle Justice & Outreach Committee  has also partnered with us on this project for several years, assisting with sponsorship of the project's capacity building.

This initiative is  a public health literacy tool  which provides public health information in a clear and concise way that Liberian communities can understand; and includes information on individual and community sanitary needs, stopping the spread of infectious diseases, basic first aid tips, preventing STDs and much more. Our agency does out reach to build interest and holds workshops to present the information in the Manual to communities at large.

 

 

Please contribute to a worthy cause! Your donation is important to our programs in Liberia and will go towards costs including:

  • Clinic materials, supplies and medicines
  • Care packages for expectant mothers
  • Reproduction of Adult Education books
  • Outreach to recruit additional Adult Education students and teen Peer Educators
  • Adult education materials and supplies including pens, pencils and notebooks
  • Transportation cost so our teen Peer Educators can travel to various schools to facilitate Health Education and other workshops
  • Gas for our ambulances so they can effectively respond to emergencies

These are things most take for granted, but they are essential to those our programs serve.  If you can lend a hand please do so. Thank you.



                                                                                                                                                

Imani House Liberia Partners

  • Ethelwyn Doolittle Justice & Outreach Committee-Has supported Imani House’s Women’s Health Education Manual project for 3 years.
  • American Jewish World Service– Funded Imani House’s projects in Liberia for close to 8 years. Inspite of discontinuing funding in 2012 , AJWS once again recently sponsored our agency to help us in our fight against the Ebola virus in Liberia.
  • Global Giving– by way of a Global Giving fundraising campaign Imani House was able to receive support from individual donors for our Liberian Projects. Recently Global Giving also made a donation  from their general Ebola Fund to help us in our work against the deadly virus
  • Liberian Marketing Association– Administers all market spaces in the country and has collaborated with Imani House by donating space with-in or nearby to market places to hold our Adult Education Programs. These locations are key as most students in the program are market women and allows them to get to and from class quickly while maintaining their businesses.
  • Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund – has showed a high level of commitment in working with Imani House and has been instrumental in assisting our Adult Education program in locating space in several Monrovia Market Places.
  • Liberian Ministry of Health–  collaborates with Imani House to  train and certify lay midwives. The Ministry  also monitors and donates drugs through the National Drug Service of Liberia to our health care facility.
  • Proliteracy International – Imani House has represented Proliteracy on the ground in Liberia since 1985. They are the creators of Literacy for Social Justice and many of the materials that we use in our program. Most recently they also worked with us on our Women’s Health Education Manual Project.
  • The Global Fund– donated medicine and supplies for our health care facility.
  • The National Adult Literacy Association of Liberia – Imani House  is a member of this Association, which  serves as an umbrella organization for local NGO’s running Literacy programs.
  • Alphalit– Reprinted Laubach Way to Reading Adult Literacy Books, with permission from Proliteracy. Alphalit donates copies of the new “Africanized” literacy workbooks to Imani House for our Adult Education classes.
  • Plenty International – Has been advising Imani House regarding the installation of a solar well pump similar to the ones they have installed in Belize. Plenty is also working with Imani House to locate and outreach water and sanitation funders.
  • Tees Girls Nursing School — This school offers training for Nurse’s Aides and Imani House allows some of their students to apprentice at our clinic as interns so that they can gain experience.