AFLA-Liberia COVID19 Quick Family and Community Trauma Healing

The Association For Life of Africa- Liberia (AFLA-Liberia) is a Christian Non-Governmental Organization that is reaching, rescuing and restoring broken communities and lives through our various centers across Liberia by providing health care, counseling, ministry, education, and social services where lives are being saved and changed. We believe in the sanctity of life and that all lives are valuable and should be respected.

Over the years AFLA-Liberia has helped communities in both the urban and rural communities across Liberia to create resilience and be empowered to serve as agents of change in their communities. Due to the COVID pandemic, which has re-circled the trauma of the 14 years of civil war and Ebola outbreak, many of our people in these communities we are serving have been impacted economically. We were able to respond by reaching out to them with food and some COVID preventive materials. Funding prevented us from reaching the overwhelming economic need in as many communities as we would have liked. However, we provide counseling, mentoring, and trauma healing skills to help empower these communities and people to create resilience and healthy coping skills to deal with the short and long term trauma of COVID.

During one of our distribution events (food and COVID materials supplies to the physically challenged), many of them said, “We are grateful that you were able to reach out to us. We were dying of starvation and severe trauma due to continuous isolation and abandonment by the government and community.” Physically challenged people in the country are mostly left to beg on the street for survival and due to social distancing and isolation; they are facing severe economic challenges.

There have been 1,956 cases and 84 COVID deaths so far across the country of Liberia. It is our hope that the food, preventive materials, counseling, mentoring and trauma healing skills acquired through our project; the physically challenged, families and communities will be equipped to deal with the impact and effects of COVID. The goal is to develop skills and resilience in the life of these communities to overcome the trauma and its effects of COVID19 and post COVID19.

We are asking for a donation of 10, 20, 30, 40 USD to help buy fifty bags of rice at the cost of 750.00 and two thousand face masks at the cost of 250.00. I do believe that your donation and support will be able to transform lives and bring healing to our community.

Project Updates

The Association For Life of Africa-Liberia has transition from providing food, masks and buckets as her emergency respond to the COVID pandemic and is currently involve into Trauma Healing and Mentoring Trainings across five counties in Liberia; as a build up to our response from the impact and trauma that COVID has left across our nation Liberia. Our Trauma Healing and mentoring training focuses on Dealing with the Wounds of the Heart

We will be using three resources (Peter Scazzero- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and George Festus Blamoh- The Silent Cry of a Fatherless Generation, and HDI Spiritual First Aid) for our Trauma Healing and mentoring Training across five counties (Montserrado County, Bong County, Cape Mount County, Margibi County, and Bomi County) in Liberia

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero

CHAPTER2……………………………….. 39 KnowYourself That You May Know God
BecomingYour Authentic Self
CHAPTER3……………………………….. 71 Going Back in Order to Go Forward
Breaking the Power of the Past
CHAPTER4……………………………….. 97 Journey through the Wall
Letting Go of Power and Control

“The Silent Cry of a Fatherless Generation” by George Festus Blamoh

The ‘Silent Cry of a Fatherless Generation’ I delves into the significant role fathers play in shaping the lives of their children and explores the deep emotional wounds inflicted when fathers are absent. I passionately addresses the challenges faced by fatherless children, offering hope to those who have experienced rejection. The book transitions from the painful experience of fatherlessness to a message of hope and healing for those in need. In my work, I advocate for creating “safe spaces” where the fatherless can receive emotional support and guidance. I underscored the critical role that mentors and life coaches can play in filling the gap left by absent fathers, particularly in Liberia where many children and youth face this reality.
Blamoh emphasized the need for broader community engagement to address the plight of fatherless children. “The silent cries of our children cannot be heard only among fathers.”
My book calls for national attention to the emotional and psychological trauma faced by young people growing up without fathers and highlights the importance of supportive, nurturing environments for their growth. My advocacy extends beyond literature; my leadership at AFLA-Liberia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children and families across the country. I stressed the importance of collaboration in fostering national development and societal change, noting, your esteemed support holds the potential to bring holistic transformation and healing.

HDI Spiritual First Aid

The Spiritual First Aid training is an evidence-informed, peer-to-peer disaster spiritual and emotional care intervention designed to empower leaders and their communities to overcome trauma and its effects in the context of community.

Specific Means Of Achieving Project Goals

It is not possible to help each child, youth, and adult to deal with this trauma in the form of individual therapy, but thousands of children, youth, and adults can be helped by caring adults who are empowered through our Trauma Healing and Mentoring Trainings across five counties in Liberia.

Budget

Breakfast and Lunch for 75 participants at 10.00 —— 750.00USD
Training Hall provided by partners ——
Registration Fees per participant 75 @ 5.00USD — 375.00USD
Transportation (Gasoline for the car) to Training the facilitate- 50.00USD

Thanks so much for your support and services. We are so grateful.