Projects
School Development
Central to FUEL Youth’s mission is the construction of school facilities in under served Liberian communities. FUEL Youth works closely with community leaders to build and support schools. Currently, we are working in two project sites, Swaggart Island and Messima Village. Learn more here.
Scholarship and Youth Programs
Young people in Liberia need mentoring and helping hands to build themselves up into a generation of strong leaders, working to re-build their country. FUEL Youth engages in scholarship giving to high-school and university-level students to help them in continuing their education and supports youth programs that offer youth a positive activity to harness on to.
Light Up Liberia
While electricity remains a rare commodity in Liberia, FUEL Youth is working to wire its schools with electric infrastructure to enable night classes for adults, a computer library for the community, and more efficient school administration. Our Light Up Liberia program harnesses Liberia’s roughly 1,600 hours of sunshine per year as a sustainable source of power for the school community.
Clean Water for UCA
In 2010, FUEL Youth supported the construction of a water tower next to UCA, thanks to support from Friends of Liberia and Concordia Lutheran School in Peoria, Illinois. The water tower provides a source of clean drinking water to the UCA community, which previously had no dedicated water source.
In 2009, FUEL Youth broke ground on its second school which is under construction in the predominantly Muslim village of Messima in Grand Cape Mount County. Currently, about 100 children from Messima and three surrounding villages gather to learn in a three-room, makeshift structure. The new school will include nine classrooms, an auditorium, a nurse facility, and an early childhood education center. We expect construction to be complete by the end of 2014.
messima village
Swaggart Island
Swaggart Island is a small island community in Gardnersville, just outside of Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia. Located on Swaggart Island is United Christian Academy (UCA), FUEL Youth’s flagship school. Since the school opened in 2006, FUEL Youth has supported several projects to develop the UCA community, including the provision of scholarships, educational materials, teacher workshops, and clean drinking water. Currently, UCA educates nearly 550 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, and FUEL Youth is working to develop a library on-site to advance student and community learning.
Monrovia, liberia
grand cape mount county, liberia
Messima village
In 2009, FUEL Youth broke ground on its second school which is under construction in the predominantly Muslim village of Messima in Grand Cape Mount County. Currently, about 100 children from Messima and three surrounding villages gather to learn in a three-room, makeshift structure. The new school will include nine classrooms, an auditorium, a nurse facility, and an early childhood education center. We expect construction to be complete by the end of 2014.