Child Sponsor Liberia

There are many reasons to sponsor a child in Liberia. Life expectancy in the copuntry is just 60.75 years (2021) and Liberia is in 177th place out of 191 countries and territories in 2021 when ranked in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the living standards of a country.

The country has high levels of childhood malnutrition, with a third of children under 5 stunted and 6% acutely malnourished. Diarrhea and pneumonia, which are leading causes of child death in Liberia, are also closely linked to unsafe drinking water and poor hygiene habits.

There are some 1,878,000 children living in Liberia, with an astonishing 100,000 orphaned.

Although there has been progress over recent years, the country is still traumatised by the civil war in which 87% of today's young parents saw a family member killed, 60% had seen other children beaten to death whilst 84% reported that they had experienced being "surrounded by, lying underneath or stepping on" dead bodies. As one girl reminisced "When I close my eyes, all I can see is the war. I often think about taking my own life." Child sponsor programs in Liberia focus on access to safe water, health and education resources as well as caring for orphaned or abandoned children and rehabilitating former child soldiers. You can help when you sponsor a child in Liberia.