Liberian Youth Coalition
Partnering to Shape the Future of Liberian Youths Everywhere
HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT
The Liberian Youth Coalition wants to expose the awareness of health and environmental issues facing
many Liberians today. Health and environmental issues have become an epidemic of concerns around the world and little has been done to eradicate this problem. This is because the problem is ongoing and the lack of sufficient resources to tackle poverty directly has prevented momentum in finding a solution. The Liberian government and other local and international organizations have done their best, but the Liberian Youth Coalition believes it can add its weight to this overwhelming problem.
Children in Liberia today are at greater risk than their parents when it comes to health and environmental issues. They face numerous environmental threats to their health and development, especially when a countless number of them have no parent or guardian to provide parental care due to the 14 years civil crisis that left them as orphans. Because they breathe more air, drink more water, and consume more food, they have tended to exercise certain behavioral patterns and natural curiosity that placed them in harms way due to the fact that their body system that is still developing lacks the metabolism necessary to expel harmful pollutants.
Some health and environmental issues are caused by mainly poverty, illiteracy to harmful communicable diseases, contaminated water sources, and contaminated soil which passes the germs into the food. They also pose a great risk to many health issues such as sexual transmitted disease, asthma, cancer, and malaria.
Nearly 40 per cent of the population does not have access to safe water, and nearly 75 per cent does not have access to adequate sanitation. Statistics show an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 5.9 per cent; the actual rate is believed to be higher. Liberia’s infant and under-5 mortality rates remain among the five highest in the world. More than 15 per cent of children die before reaching their first birthday. What We Can Do:
Provide awareness on how to control communicable diseases
Teach First Aid to members of the communities
Increase the awareness of sexual transmitted diseases and HIV through our computer resource training centers, and outreach to secondary schools and universities
Promote healthy lifestyles by conducting family planning seminars, educating families about the affect of contamination and pollution, and encouraging physical fitness through our recreational programs
How You Can Help:
Donate posters exposing environmental and health issues
Create Microsoft power point presentation on health or environmental issues that we can use to educate vulnerable youths and adults.
Donate condoms, as sexual transmitted diseases are spread because many can’t afford to buy condoms in poor countries such as Liberia
DONATE: You can make a difference today.
The Liberian Youth Coalition is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax-exempt to the full extent allowed by U.S. laws regulated by the Internal Revenue Service.