Maria Nichola Groves School of Excellence
Feeding Mouths Filling Minds has established a partnership with Humanity Care Liberia we want to bridge the gap by providing quality education to children in rural communities, and eliminating poverty, hunger, and child labour through this program. “Maria Nicholas Groves School of Excellence” aims to enrich the curriculum for these children beyond the four walls of the school.
Feeding Mouths Filling Minds has established a partnership with Humanity Care Liberia we want to bridge the gap by providing quality education to children in rural communities, and eliminating poverty, hunger, and child labour through this program. “Maria Nicholas Groves School of Excellence” aims to enrich the curriculum for these children beyond the four walls of the school.
Our role
The school is not only equipped with classrooms and school materials, our key partner, Strides for Africa, also included a safe water well. Feeding Mouths, Filling Minds developed a school feeding program to advance our mission to eliminate the challenge of finding safe, dependable food and water sources so that children can focus on their future.
While construction is in its final stages, the school currently has 124 students enrolled, and the water well, which was completed in March 2023, now has 376 beneficiaries.
PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
School Lunch in Liberia
Feeding Mouths, Filling Minds is helping Humanity Care Liberia who is leading this project on the ground locally. They have donated a plot of land in order to grow crops. Education and interaction with the children of the schools are also a focus of this project.
Gardens Combatting Hunger
STATUS: FUNDRAISING
2020 FUNDRAISING GOAL: $15,000
FMFM's team visited Liberia and met with our partners, Humanity Care Liberia, in January 2017 to learn about the challenges facing schoolchildren in the region. Together, we found that the schools in the region are unable to provide meals to the children during the school day - resulting in hungry children, truancy and shorter school days. Humanity Care Liberia is led by a local couple, with degrees in agriculture and experience working with local communities to teach them about sustainable agriculture. They oversee the development of our garden projects working directly with school leadership and ensure sustainability by educating caretakers, students and teachers about farming and crop-growing techniques.
our role
Feeding Mouths, Filling Minds is raising funds to expand our garden programs to even more schools. This includes covering the cost of getting the plot of land ready for farming, such as:
Fencing to keep the land secure from scavengers
Farming tools such as shovels, buckets, rakes, etc.
Seeds and cassava root yuccas for planting the crop
Farm upkeep and maintenance costs
Our team will continue to work with Humanity Care Liberia to assess the farming options, and will assure that the school children have a chance to learn about the growing process so that they not only benefit nutritionally, but learn something in the process.
Water Wells in Liberia
Feeding Mouths Filling Minds has established a partnership with Live Life Liberia to give donors and schools the opportunity to build water wells for schools and communities in rural Liberia as part of our Kids for Kids program.
Feeding Mouths Filling Minds has established a partnership with Live Life Liberia to give donors and schools the opportunity to build water wells for schools and communities in rural Liberia as part of our Kids for Kids program. Making use of local resources to source materials and labor, we'll teach Liberian citizens subsistence farming and provide essential supplies.
Our role
FMFM and its partner organizations work with schools and organizations in the United States who want to take on a fundraising project abroad but are not sure where to start. We work with groups - like high school history classes, Girl Scout troops and churches - to identify the location for well they're going to fund. We work with Live Life Liberia to set up the resources and benefactors. Together, we work together to make a big impact in a short period of time.
If you're interested in funding a well-building project in Liberia, please contact us for more information.
