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Yesterday we shared the need. $4,000 in 4 days.
Today, not quite 24 hours later, we are over half way there.
With your help, we will open a temporary community hub at the school, supplying the school families and the surrounding community with emergency food and sanitation supplies.
Together, we will be ready.
Joseph, our school principal messaged today to share the latest from Liberia. With 6 confirmed cases (where tests are virtually nonexistent), the community is afraid. They remember all too clearly the 2014-15 Ebola Crisis.
Just like us, Liberian schools are closed, the open-air markets are closing, and church services are canceled as the community begins to shelter in place. Joseph said that neighbors came to him yesterday asking if The Hope Project would be there for the community once again, just as we were during Ebola. There is a very real fear in Liberia that because our country is facing a national crisis, we will be unable to assist them as we have before. I told Joseph that we will do what we can. I reminded him that the people who support The Hope Project are people who show up. People who know what it means to be a literal safety net.
As the global situation is ever-changing, so are the needs of our Liberian community. We will come to you on a need-to-have basis. We are in immediate need of $4,000 to get a community hub open and operational in the next week. This community hub will be located at Hope International where Gardnersville residents can receive:
An emergency portion of rice.
Supplies for handwashing and home sanitation needs.
With your help, we can ensure that basic needs are met during this crisis. Will you help us raise the needed$4,000 by Tuesday, April 7th?
A little over a week ago you helped to raise $1,000 in 24 hours for sanitation supplies for the school. Yesterday we received a video of the purchased supplies. Here is the message from Joseph:
That is how immediate and direct your donations are. Money converted to Hope in just days. You are the safety net, we are the safety net. Together, we are HOPE.
$4,000 in 4 days. We got this.
Thank you.
Jackie Frazier
Executive Director, The Hope Project
I’m writing to you from my kitchen table, pausing for a moment, and sending you so much love and gratitude across the miles. May peace find you in your new homebound rhythms and to our essential workers, your work is securing and serving us all. Thank you.
Like I imagine many of you, my anxiety level has run the gamut. I’m thinking about family, friends and community members, waiting to see what the unknown fallout will be. I cling to the stories of heroism and greater good thinking. How the medical professionals are coming out of retirement to be of beautiful use, the Dyson company engineering new ventilators in 10 short days, those who are sewing masks, the social distance drive by birthday wishes, and the grocery store heroes.
Despite desperate and uncertain circumstances, we are connected and when we harness our collective energy, we make the impossible, possible. We are finally understanding what our Liberian friends have known all along – we are each other’s safety net.
During this time of major crisis, many of you are living out of an ever-increasing value to support your local, small businesses to keep them afloat. I am too. I ask that you, who love us and share what you have with the community of Liberia, think of The Hope Project as a local, small business in need of your support to endure and survive this storm. We too don’t have a large cushion to sustain us.
Your generosity enables the work in Liberia to continue during these tumultuous times, as well as in times of calm.
Nearly 1,200 students will be returning to school (currently predicted to be mid-April) to receive an education that is otherwise unattainable.
70 full and part-time staff depend on their salaries. In Liberia, there are no government programs, no unemployment to receive, no stimulus checks…no assistance of any kind.
There are extremely minimal supplies and health care infrastructure. The country currently has 3 ventilators.
Big gifts, small gifts, all of it feeds into the pot of Hope that is being dished out and continually replenished by you who bring the ingredients. It’s such a beautiful metaphor.
With your partnership, we will continue to do this work. Together, we will be ready to provide what we can when the children and families in Liberia need us most. We are once again reminded during this time, we are each other’s safety net.
Please give HOPE today. Thank you.
Jackie Frazier
Executive Director
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