Since the lunching of the Adult Literacy Program in Clara Town community in February 2003, FHTH has enrolled more than 883 students and is expected to increase that number to 1,500 pupils (adult) from across the city for the 2005-2006 school-calendar year. The overall aim of the program is to help women, adult and youth access improve leaning environment and to help bring about sustainable social change, relief from literacy to literacy, thereby empowering communities for sustainable peace and development. We believe strongly that this program will directly help to improve self-esteem among older persons and target beneficiaries. It will also afford them the opportunity to play their right role in society and advocates for their rights.

Our next goal in Liberia is to support rural development initiatives, helping local farmers to improve their agricultural productivity and promoting income-generation activities by village communities; By encouraging cooperation between local public and private farmers; FHTH hopes to create an atmosphere that is conducive for improving agricultural development. Through the purchase of equipment such as tractors and fertilizers as well as the education of the farming community regarding improved farming techniques and irrigation, communities will be able to increase the size of their harvest and feed more of its community members. Such investment in the infrastructures of rural communities will greatly improves the chances for the people survival, especially the women and children. By providing adult literacy programs, child education programs, vocational education aimed to help women; FHTH intend to help individuals learn the skills needed to improve their lives and that of their families.

Through the encouragement of the participation by women in communal and economic projects, the development of more stable market environments in some of the world’s poorest regions can be attained. As a result of creating such functional learning environments, communities may become empowered to bring about stabilizing social changes in their regions, thus promoting sustainable peace and economic development. The devastating Liberian civil conflict has its roots in decade of social injustice, corruption, economic mismanagement, unequal distribution of national wealth leaving the majority of the people in object poverty and no mean of funding child education thereby given raise to the high rate of illiteracy in the country. Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world; a recent study in the poverty situation in Liberia conducted by the UN system common country assessment (CCA) indicated that an estimated 80% of the total population in Liberia live below the poverty line and are illiterate. This is due to a combination of factors such as the prolonged period of civil war, declining economic growth, devastation of economic and social infrastructure and loss of livelihood sources due to displacement of the larger population. The majority of the youths that were disarmed and demobilized after the conflict are rural based, unskilled, have little education (below elementary level). Unemployment, and lack means of livelihood, increased social problems in the same vein faced with economic hardship in the country. It is evident during the community consultation process that the women and youths play an active role within their respective communities, but their contribution are still low due to lack of formal education. In terms of human resources, the war has had a “brain drain” affect on Liberia as many trained Liberians either died during the war or fled the country and have not returned.

With all these compelling factors, it has become increasingly important to intervene in the formal education sector to help reduce the level of illiteracy within the rural areas of the country by establishing Adult Literacy and Vocational Training Classes for willing youths and adults. Despite the many difficulties, which includes the hard cost of living, lack of mobility and the high level of bureaucracy that we are faced with, FHTH along with its corps of officers and volunteers are working hard to achieve the goals and objectives of From Hunger To Harvest, Inc. Recently, a piece of land in Monrovia was donated to FHTH to build a Multi-Purpose Center to provide, in addition to the Adult Literacy training program, Vocational Training program for Youth and Women. These include Tailoring training, Pastry production training, Tie and Dye training, Computer literacy training and agricultural training program.

The Center if built will provide a place for workshops for market women and other professional peoples in small business management and family planning. In view of the foregoing, FHTH is seeking donations of $10, $25, $100 or more to help create self-sufficiency for the people of Liberia. With your donation, true change for Liberians will help one person, one family, and one village at a time. The program stands to benefit primarily Liberian returnees, internally displaced persons and community members mostly women, marketers and adult men. School dropout youth will be encouraged to abandon the quick gain through the gun to a long-term sustainable self-development (education). Please give the gift of a new life for the needy families of Liberia. We are all one family, the human family. Your participation will change the course of the future for families in Liberia.

Please don’t wait! Make a commitment today to reach, teach and save lives by sending a tax-deductible contribution or donation to:

FROM HUNGER TO HARVEST, INC.
6042 The Plaza –
P.O. Box 5466
Charlotte, NC 28299-5466

We thank you for your help and support. May God Bless You