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Global Front Foundation
One of the surest ways of promoting an enhanced and sustained agriculture program in any Liberian community is through the full involvement and active participation of the young people. And one way to enlist youth participation is by incorporating an agricultural program into their respective schools. In time past, schools in Liberia taught Agriculture as part of the required academic curriculum for the junior and senior high students (6 -12grades). As part of the agriculture program, students in these classes cultivated parcel of farmland for demonstration (practical) purposes. Students were required to demonstrate lessons learned in their agriculture classes by planting and growing crops. By so doing, products from these students' farms supplemented their dietary needs while surplus from the farms were sold and funds generated were directed to funding other student projects.
It is with the desire to reintroduce this practice within the Liberian school system that Global Front Foundation seeks partnership for the implementation of a Youth Empowerment through Agriculture Production Project as a pilot in a select number of schools in Bong and Nimba County.

Liberia, like many parts of the world is faced with food shortages as a result of a growing global food crisis. As a region that has seen and still feels the effects of war, it is important to note the emerging global food crisis as a threat to the fragile and relative peace that the region is experiencing today. Years of war have left the whole region with poverty, hunger, disease, and youth violence as residual consequences. While the global food crisis presents a challenge, there is an opportunity for young people who are the future leaders to enter the agricultural sector since it has been proven that Agriculture is the key for economic growth in Africa. Therefore, the need for young people's involvement in agricultural development through practical action so as to rapidly accelerate food production in Liberia can best be described as URGENT. Young people when given the proper tools and guidance can help alleviate food shortages by producing and marketing what they eat. The Youth Empowerment through Agriculture
Production Project is a strategy for promoting and creating awareness amongst young people that agricultural development in Liberia will help minimize poverty (hunger) and increase food sufficiency in the country and at the same time impact their lives and open opportunities for youth employment. Young people will be motivated to grow and market a commodity and sponsor their schooling, share proceeds with their relatives, friends, love ones, and community and further reinvest in the soil for self or community undertakings.

Implementation
Achieving increase in food production will require the ingenuity, solidarity and creativity of the Global Front Foundation through the local school districts, the youth community and other related government agencies, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Education, as well as others meaningful citizens well mobilized and structured. Students and young people will be encouraged to get involve in agricultural production as a means of empowerment. The produce from the project will be used to supplement their daily diet at school, while the surplus will be sold at the nearest markets and other will be kept as seedlings for the replication of the project in other communities.

It is our hope that school children will learn important skills and feel valued as they participate in this effort of providing not only for themselves but also for their fellow students and community as well. We ask that you consider partnering with our youth of tomorrow to encourage them and to assist them with the life saving skills of growing food and being part of something bigger than themselves.

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Partnering Projects-

Global Orphan Outreach understands the importance of partnering with Liberians to help them empower and improve their life circumstances. Some projects we partner with are with local ngo organizations in Liberia who are working there. It is our desire to bring awareness and support to these organizations who are working so diligently on the behalf of their people.

Access to the Future-Cuttington University Wheel Chair Ramps

According to the World Health Organization, 80% of persons with disabilities live in developing third world countries and account for 15- 20 % of the worlds poorest. "It is important to bear in mind that facts are very hard to obtain, as so many disabled people are hidden and anonymous with regard to official statistics."

Disabled people of working age in developed and developing countries are 3 times more likely to be unemployed and live in real poverty

Imagine being handicapped in a third world country where there is little to no help or resources. Imagine not being able to attend college because you get around in a wheel chair and there are no wheel chair ramps to access college buildings. What would your future be?
Cuttington University, one of the oldest universities in Africa, is one such university in Liberia. While Cuttington has been dedicated to helping talented, motivated students develop their skills, define their goals, and follow their dreams, they lack some much needed wheel chair ramps so that handicap students can access the buildings and attend college.
Global Orphan Outreach along with Cuttington University is inviting you to help open the world of education to students with handicaps by helping us to raise the funds necessary to build several wheel chair ramps through out the Cuttington campus. Cuttington has made the commitment to provide the labor to build the ramps and all that is needed is the funds to build them.
Wont you help today? Help these students access their college thus having access to a bright future for themselves. Contact Global Orphan Outreach and ask how you can help. To make a donation, click here: