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In the heart of West Africa, the small nation of Liberia has faced numerous challenges, from civil wars to the Ebola outbreak. Yet, a midst these adversities, the Liv Grosser Foundation stands as a beacon of hope, providing essential support and resources to empower the people of Liberia. As a non-profit organization, the Liv Grosser Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of Liberians through Religious, agricultural, educational, healthcare, housing/foster care, and community development initiatives. This article delves into the mission, impact, and future endeavors of this remarkable organization.

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Liv Foundation was born in 2018 on the back porch of a small mud house in Gbarga City, Bong County. By a Liberian name, Siah Yamasu, she hails from a family that didn’t know God and had no interest in knowing Christ Jesus. She got introduced to Church by a childhood friend who took her to church for the first time at age 14. Since then, she had been a Christian. Growing up as a Child in Africa, Parents or the elderly are always right in everything and Kids do not have a say, After so many attempts that was proving fruitless to convenience her parents and simblies to go to church and give their lives to God, so she started gather children in the evening and, telling them Bible stories, especially under the moonlight, and to know more about their spiritual and social life challenges. Siah was the only one in her family who believed in God. One faithful night, while listening to one, Daniel Carter, who was one of the street children, tell his story of how civil-war loss and Ebola orphan-hood had made him homeless, sleeping in market straw, and taking drugs to forget their worries, it was that moment that gave birth to this dream, now a testament of reality.

Before dawn, she sketched a dream on the ground with her thoughts and imagination, with the question
"What if an organization existed that didn’t just feed kids for a day, but gave them a Church, a home, a school, a clinic, and a farm so they could feed themselves for life?" After years of trusting God with faith, the unthinkable happened on May 6, 2021. At that time, Siah was in the United States when her father died, and she felt that she had failed to win that one soul that was in her own family. Siah decided to take the matter to God by selling her house in Liberia and made a vow to God that if the house was sold in time and she was able to give her father a befitting burial, she would start to build a church and an orphanage home with the rest of the proceeds from the sale. Today, we can see the dreams and vision coming to pass by the grace of God and the help of a Kingdom financier, a destiny helper and family, who have been a tremendous help in getting the project to where it is now. A family that lives their life as commanded of us in Mathew 28:19-20 to go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to obey everything God has commanded.

The name LIV Foundation was not chosen because it is short, easy to pronounce in every local dialect, not because it sounds like the English word "LIVE," but an embodiment of the legacy of a servant of God who worked her entire life in the mission field of kingdom building, changing the lives of children around the world, bring hope to the hopeless and less fortunate. This is our way of upholding her legacy in Liberia

Liberia, formally the Republic of Liberia, sits on West Africa’s Atlantic shoreline, squeezed between Sierra Leon, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire. Home to roughly 5.5 million people in an area the size of Virginia, it lists English as its official tongue while more than twenty native languages still circulate on the street. Monrovia, the Atlantic-facing capital, is the country’s political and economic hub.

The nation was born from an early-19th-century American idea: the American Colonization Society argued that free Black Americans might enjoy greater liberty on Africa’s coast. Between 1822 and the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War, about 15,000 African-Americans and 3,200 Afro-Caribbeans sailed to what would become Liberia. These settlers forged an “Americo-Liberian” identity, transplanting Southern customs while extending control over local peoples. On 26 July 1847 they declared independence, creating Africa’s first republic—though Washington did not acknowledge it until 1862.

Liberia kept its sovereignty during Europe’s Scramble for Africa, one of only two states (with Ethiopia) to do so. Firestone’s giant rubber plantation, established in the 1920s, reshaped the economy and landscape, while Second-World-War cooperation with the United States brought roads, ports and an airfield. President William Tubman (1944-71) welcomed foreign capital, modernized infrastructure and pushed the country into the League of Nations, the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity

In 1980 simmering resentment against Americo-Liberian dominance boiled over: Master-Sergeant Samuel Doe seized power, executed President Tolbert and launched the first indigenous-led, but soon authoritarian, government. Doe’s murder in 1990 opened a decade-and-a-half of civil conflict. Warlord Charles Taylor won the 1997 election, only to face a second rebellion; by the time he resigned in 2003 the two wars had killed some 250,000 Liberians and displaced a third of the population, while the economy contracted by roughly 90 percent.

A 2003 peace accord ushered in UN peacekeepers and, two years later, democratic polls that made Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Africa’s first elected female head of state. Since then the country has held successive peaceful elections, though it still grapples with weak institutions, poverty and the social scars of war.

Beneath the political recovery lies another story: since the 1960s iron ore, gold and diamonds have drawn foreign companies, providing state revenue but also igniting disputes over land, labor conditions and environmental damage. Mining slowed to a trickle during the fighting, rebounded afterward, and remains a flash-point for protests over low wages, deforestation and polluted rivers—reminders that stability and equity do not always march in step.