Sponsor A Child

LVOH has found that the children benefit more when their parents are part of their activities. For this reason, LVOH helps low-income families reach self-sufficiency. By working with local social workers, LVOH provides parental training on parenting and job skills.

The majority of the parents served by LVOH are between the ages of 16 and 18. When Ms. Oshoko first returned to Liberia in 1999, she found young mothers between the ages of 10 and 18, uneducated, unemployed and unable to care for their children. Many of these young women had been raped by civil war combatants or had been abandoned by their babies' fathers due to the fathers' economic hardships or untimely deaths.

After the parents receive their training, they set examples for the other community members. In the future, they will become the trainers for their peers.