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Funds Needed for Huge Hospital Bill
On July 4th Monkonjay was boiling hot water when her cell phone fell into the pot! Without thinking she reached into the boiling water to retrieve her phone!! Her hand was severely burned along with her face. They quickly rushed her to the ELWA hospital where she was admitted. We bought 3 units of blood […]
Helping Poor Children go to School
Our staff in Liberia have been very busy registering children to school this week! School is about to open!! Every year we have more poor children who are hoping to attend school. We help as many as we possibly can. First we do an evaluation to see what their home situation is like and how […]
Help for the Blind
Thank God we were able to buy canes for the blind!! Can you imagine being blind without a white cane to guide you? Like their leader Joseph Sackie said ” If you have the cane you can move independently” Thank you Daniel Coleman and Mercy Team for reaching out to the blind community. These are […]
Honoring Students with High Academics!!
Every year Provision of Hope has students who surprise us with high grades. This year again, we have several students who skipped grades. We attribute this to the fact that our children are all well cared for and they have the benefit of being tutored after school. We also promote good nutrition. This year we […]
Education
Helping Poor Children go to School
Our staff in Liberia have been very busy registering children to school this week! School is about to open!! Every year we have more poor children who are hoping to attend school. We help as many as we possibly can. First we do an evaluation to see what their home situation is like and how […]
Honoring Students with High Academics!!
Every year Provision of Hope has students who surprise us with high grades. This year again, we have several students who skipped grades. We attribute this to the fact that our children are all well cared for and they have the benefit of being tutored after school. We also promote good nutrition. This year we […]
Celebrating our Graduates!!!
What a happy day for NINE of our Graduates!! They all passed their WAEC exams!! They are ready for the next step to fulfill their destiny! “May God favor each one of YOU and KEEP YOU close to His Heart. ” May YOU shine like the stars and light up the world all around YOU”. […]
Back to School in Liberia!!
Our students are very excited to be going back to school! We have over 90 students registered to start their classes this week. At Provision of Hope it’s been a very busy month for our staff. They were collecting report cards, checking in on every one’s grades and going to each of the schools to […]
Empowering Young Women is the Way to Go!
This month we want to highlight Nancy Hoff for her baking skills and Maima David in tailoring!! It all started with asking Nancy ” What is your dream in life?” She responded saying that she would love to go to a baking school and open her own catering business! “So let’s do it!” I challenged […]
Hope Homes
Reaching Vulnerable Girls
Princess Kollie comes to live in Ma Esther’s Hope Home! Let me introduce you to a sweet young girl Princess Kollie. Princess was having pain in her eyes and we were asked if we could take her to an eye clinic. Both her parents are blind. They were so afraid she would also go blind. […]
Happy Easter from Liberia
Our children had so much fun having an Easter Hunt with Daniel Coleman!! First he went to Eric & Kamah’s home in Caldwell with decorated eggs and candy!! Next he went to Ma Esther’s home in Mt. Barclay! Daniel grew up in an orphanage. He has so much compassion and love for the children in […]
Merry Christmas!
“Merry Christmas from OUR HOME TO YOURS!!!” Our Children and Hope Home Parents want to wish you and your families a Blessed Christmas!! “May the love, joy and peace of Christ fill your hearts and homes this Christmas!” “MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE” from the children at Eric and Kamah’s. They called me this morning to say […]
New Parents in Ma Esther’s Home
This month we want to high light Ma Esther’s Home and introduce you to our new house parents John and Korpu Kucuyoiyoigee. John and Korpu and their 3 children moved into Ma Esther’s Home in early May as our new house parents. We are delighted at how well this transition worked out and how the […]
Empowering Young Women is the Way to Go!
This month we want to highlight Nancy Hoff for her baking skills and Maima David in tailoring!! It all started with asking Nancy ” What is your dream in life?” She responded saying that she would love to go to a baking school and open her own catering business! “So let’s do it!” I challenged […]
Mercy Ministry
Funds Needed for Huge Hospital Bill
On July 4th Monkonjay was boiling hot water when her cell phone fell into the pot! Without thinking she reached into the boiling water to retrieve her phone!! Her hand was severely burned along with her face. They quickly rushed her to the ELWA hospital where she was admitted. We bought 3 units of blood […]
Help for the Blind
Thank God we were able to buy canes for the blind!! Can you imagine being blind without a white cane to guide you? Like their leader Joseph Sackie said ” If you have the cane you can move independently” Thank you Daniel Coleman and Mercy Team for reaching out to the blind community. These are […]
Empowering Single Mothers
We always have a heart for the children of single mothers. Often we will provide emergency food, medical treatment, rent or school fees. Rather than providing continual hand outs, we like to empower them to help themselves. This week we were able to provide a brand new sewing machine for Fatu Getty!! Fatu was left […]
Refugees Pleading to Go Home
Provision of Hope continues to help refugees in the Buduburam Refugee Camp. They are asking for assistance to go back to Liberia. Our next group of refugees we will be assisting to go back home is Cecelia, along with her daughter and sister who has a small baby. Cecelia has been in this camp for […]
Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!
” Happy Valentine’s Day Ma Teta Joe !!!!!” ” We came to SURPRISE you !!!!!! Today Ma Teta was happily surprised by her flowers and her three Valentine Sweethearts…. Daniel Coleman, Jeremiah Gaye and Emmanuel Williams. What a blessing these three are to so many widows all across Monrovia!! They reach out to the poorest […]
Micro Loans
EMPOWERMENT IS THE WAY FORWARD
Micro Enterprise is proving to be successful for many of our single mothers in Liberia! We are so proud of their hard work and dedication. Every mom has a story of perseverance for sure! First let me introduce you to Grace Grayeason. Provision of Hope helped her leave the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Dec. 2016. […]
EMPOWERING WOMEN MARKS SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENT
Empowering Liberian women with small businesses is really helping them towards sustainability. Millennium Development Goal 3 is to promote gender equality and empower women. Provision of Hope is assisting women of all ages to make informed choices concerning their lives and the lives of their children. We are seeing a remarkable change as our […]
A MIRACLE CHRISTMAS
JOY TO THE WORLD has certainly become a reality for Mamie Gibson as she enjoyed Christmas with her precious children. For years she had no idea if her children survived the war. In January 2010 Sumo, her oldest son found her whereabouts! Mamie was overwhelmed to discover that ALL her children were alive and doing well. This […]
Micro Loans Help Businesses to Succeed
Otis Dyega in his pharmacy near Buchanan. Sumo Gibson is one of our Pharmacy graduates. Otis took his first micro loan in Sept 2008. ($650.00) He paid it in full within 6 months, completing the payments “early”. His second loan was granted June 4, 2009 ($1,000.00)and again he […]
Refugee mother and son find Hope!
PRECIOUS FREEMAN and her 10 yr. old son Maxwell, waited patiently, as we met with countless people from the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. Everyone had their desperate story. Finally Precious ventured to ask, “when will it be my turn to receive prayer”? I answered, “When everyone else is gone, come to my room” […]
Training Leaders
Congratulations Gr. 12 Grads!!!
Provision of Hope would like to honor all our Grade 12 Grads for their achievements in reaching this day! Well done! You studied hard to finish well. Jeremiah Gaye shows his school medal! Way to go! Jeremiah was one of 112 students of the 264 from his school that successfully passed his West African Exams […]
Organics 4 Orphans
Organics 4 Orphans runs an excellent Training Program in Kenya in Biointensive Agriculture and Natural Medicine. This month 2 of our Liberian students have been accepted into their program with the intent that they will bring these same concepts back to Liberia in order to train others in the same field. Kelvin Taweh is a […]
EMPOWERING WOMEN MARKS SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENT
Empowering Liberian women with small businesses is really helping them towards sustainability. Millennium Development Goal 3 is to promote gender equality and empower women. Provision of Hope is assisting women of all ages to make informed choices concerning their lives and the lives of their children. We are seeing a remarkable change as our […]
Community Tidiness Care
COMMUNITY TIDINESS CARE is a new program that Daniel Coleman initiated. This is a group of volunteer workers who go from community to community collecting garbage. Look at these photos! What a difference they are making to the streets of Lower New Matadi and other communities in Monrovia. […]
GRADUATION BRINGS MAJOR CHANGES
IT’S GRADUATION TIME for eleven of our Gr. 12 students in Liberia. Graduation brings about a major change and transition for these students. For sure this will be a challenge for each of them! They are used to having all their needs met on our program, now they are stepping out into independent living, where […]
Widows Outreach
Poor Widow Needs Help
Daniel Coleman our Director for Mercy Ministry came back from Bomi Hill asking if we could please help another desperate widow? ” Her needs are many!” Ma Hawa is a frail little widow who lives in a mud plastered home. There are many open spaces in her walls. When it rains her roof leaks and […]
From the Cold Floor to a Bed!
Provision of Hope keeps making beds for our widows! Can you imagine sleeping on a cold floor? Grandma Mary was overjoyed to be the recipient of a new bed this month! No longer does she have to sleep on card board, on the cold cement floor. Daniel Coleman and our volunteers assembled the bed, bought […]
Widows Happy for Medical Drugs!
Our widows are so happy to be receiving medical drugs along with their rice, oil and soup seasoning! This month we were able to give our widows Tylenol and other medications to help them with their arthritic pain and colds etc. We are hoping to do this more often. This is a real need. Twice […]
OPERATION MAT TO MATTRESS is still going strong!
Stop for just one minute. Imagine you are Ma Susan Doe. You never had a “real”bed in all your life. All you have is a thin mat on the floor. It’s very old and smells like mildew from all the humidity. You have a torn blanket, that’s it! At night it is common for a […]
New Widow Struggles to Feed her Family
Christiana Young lost her husband Othello unexpectedly 5 months ago. Two weeks ago she was in a bad car accident on her way to Buchanan where Grandma is from. Thank God she survived the crash, but she has been bed ridden in pain since the accident. Christiana went to the hospital but because of the […]