Orphan Grain Project

ORPHAN GRAIN PROJECT PROPOSAL

Project Title: Orphan Grain Project

Project Goal:

-To create a way for Liberians to be self-sufficient and also to provide a way for the school to be self-supported so it is able to offer quality schooling to those who cannot afford it. This project would also work as income generation for struggling women for the Kpeletayama Village and foster homes; also being a means of sustainable food for the village and the orphans.

Project Objective:

-To get a strong durable truck that can haul produce to market and withstand the rugged terrain of Liberian roads. Ideally, a truck that could also haul a large group of people to work in the fields of New Life Community.

-To have sustainable food for the village and orphans, and have self- sufficiency in obtaining food. Once this is addressed common diseases and disabilities due to malnourishment automatically gets addressed also.

-To get funds and materials to build a school that can be self sufficient and open to vulnerable children who would otherwise not have any access to an education. (i.e. children who live in the street and sleep in the market place, orphans, etc.)

Targeted Beneficiaries:

The people that would most greatly benefit from this project would be the Kpeletayama Village, foster children, vulnerable women, and street children in Monrovia (who normally sleep in the market place or are taken in by people who abuse them).

Problem Statement: Why this program is needed and the problems it will solve:

-This project works on solving the problem of lack of food and malnutrition, by providing a means of sustainable food.

-Vulnerable woman take pride and pleasure in their work and will be able to make their own money and be self-sufficient.

-To eventually provide a school that is accessible to the poor, street kids, orphans, etc. Giving them a way out of the cycle of extreme poverty. Without education these children have no way of improving their circumstances, or the circumstances of their future children.

OVERVIEW: This project is being overseen by Peter Flomo and Global Orphan Outreach. Peter Flomo is a humanitarian who feels his responsibility to his Liberian community to help them establish a way to get out of the poverty

They have an understanding that without food and education, there is no hope for a child to go on and make a difference in his community, let alone the world. Peter Flomo knows this first hand, as he was the beneficiary of someone helping him when he was young, taking him in and making it possible for him to get an education. Peter has dedicated his life to finding ways to improve the lives of the orphans and children who are disabled by poverty and/or loss of parents, along with empowering women to be self-sufficient. His goal is to develop a way for Liberians to take careof themselves, thus not putting a band-aid on the problem, but fixing the problem. Liberia has rich soil for crops, just waiting to be used. One of the most amazing things about this project is that all the people working on this project are doing it just for a bowl of rice, actually one big bowl that they sit around and share; that shows how great their need is.

Peter is from the Kpeletayama Village in Bong County where he has demonstrated his skills for motivating and completing tasks that he has taken on. He does not just oversee people working by telling them what to do; he believes he cannot motivate unless he is working right

along side them. The Kpeletayama Village is a place where the basics of life are nonexistent. There is no medical care, no schooling, and up until just recently, not even clean water. They drank and bathed in water from a muddy, dank river. His village has stepped out in faith by not only planting and harvesting a crop of rice in their village, but also 18 months ago they cleared a road (using machetes, axes and shovels) through the dense forest to reach the road on which to transport their harvest of rice out of the village and to market, once they get a means of transportation. Rice from this goes to feed 209 of the orphans under Peter Flomo’s care, supplies the village with rice and to provide income after it is brought to the market. They have 300-400 bags of rice that they have harvested waiting to be brought to market.

The bowl of rice they share after working. This is their payment for a hard days work.

Some of the women and children from the village who will benefit from this project. A few women from Peter’s village gathering rice.

Peter (in the blue) along with three men (very left of picture) who have gone to school for agriculture and are helping Peter with testing the soil and seeing what exactly is needed to balance it out. They are doing this as a favor to Peter as Peter helped them go to school when they were younger.

The picture on the right, I had the honor of being the one to first break ground. I can’t imagine clearing 10 acres with just a shovel!

CONTACT:

Kari Haege, Project Director

23815 Lillehei Avenue

Hampton, MN 55031

651-206-7935

Feel free to contact me anytime with questions!