RESTORING HOPE FOR SURVIVORS LIBERIA INC
Our project is in three phases, one focuses on the preventive aspects of malaria which statistics show that the disease led to more than 580 000 deaths in 2013, mostly in children under five years of age in Africa, and imposes a significant burden on households, communities and health services in high-burden countries; and that the number of cases and deaths will increase unless efforts to reduce the disease burden are intensified. Pregnant women are three times more likely to develop severe disease than non-pregnant women acquiring infections from the same area. Malaria-infection during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, premature delivery, low birth weight, congenital infection, and/or perinatal death... con't under review
The second phase focuses on environmental Solid waste management and disposal. In Liberia, waste sites are not properly designed or managed, their contents can be released into the surrounding environment, which posing great threat to the public. To address these issues, restoring Hope for survivors is working with community stakeholders , women support group, including other youth to establish community base Waste sites monitor by our youth volunteer Workers. We are also ........................... con't under review
Phase three of our project focuses on empowering Liberian youth who dropped and graduated from high school and are unable to continue their education and other trades.
Liberia has among the highest percentage of youth in school, estimated at 62 percent, according to a report released by The World Bank on out of school children in Africa. This figure is greater than that of Rwanda, Zambia, Ghana, and Cote D’Ivoire, to name a few. However, 82 percent of twelfth graders in Liberia drop out of school.
The World Bank commissioned the report out of the recognition of the dire situation Africa faces, with 89 million school-age youth out of school. Out-of-school youth are less likely to be economically productive and contribute to the countries’ economies. According to the report, they are also more likely to need public assistance, become teen parents, and commit crimes.
A growing number of youth in Africa never enroll or drop out before reaching the secondary school level. This is particularly widespread in low-income, fragile or conflict-affected. Although Liberia is a low-income and fragile state, it does very well in the overall number of school-aged students enrolled, compared to most of the African countries included in the report.
However, Liberia has an 82 percent dropout rate in the twelfth grade. This is most likely due to the standardized West African Examination Council testing that every student must pass to graduate. In December of 2014, WAEC reported that only 48% of students taking the West African Senior School Certificate Examination passed. The failure to pass a regional standardized test shows that students may be moving forward in school without learning the necessary skills.
The figures are also low when it comes to the number of over-age students, those who are older than the typical age of students of that grade level. Liberian students are on average three to six years older than the average sub-Saharan African student of the same grade, and four to seven years older than the expected age for a grade.
To alleviate poverty and build the capacity of these young school dropped out, RHSC Liberia will work with the government, CBO’s, local authorities and others educational sectors to reintegrate them into continue learning or capacity building institutes to:
(i) identify and link the targeted beneficiaries
(ii) Link them with formal and informal training and educational institutes or centers
(iii) Provide income generation activities and promote employment opportunities through partners and governmental agencies.