Need

The experience of Liberians during the recent War has been spoken of as "agony words cannot describe".  Orphans suffered as much as anyone. 

            The traumatizing of Liberia's orphans continues today.  Those orphans that receive some help in life receive only basic, sporadic services.  Other children are utterly neglected.  Thousands of them are homeless in Monrovia, some five hundred in Buchanan, and countless others in rural areas. 

The United Methodist Church (UMC) does all it can with its resources, meager compared to the need.  In each of the UMC's seventeen districts in Liberia, the UMC district supervisor manages some services for about one hundred children.  Sadly, these children are nevertheless neglected.  In a typical scenario, fifteen children live in one hut, receive one or two meals a day, and study neither a trade nor academics.