The Liberia Children’s Rescue Orphanage was founded in 1999 to help the dozens of homeless, parentless children in New Georgia as a result of the Liberian civil wars. Since then, the residents of the orphanage have formed a tight community and live as a big, untraditional family. Older children support and protect the younger children, and everyone shares chore responsibilities to keep the orphanage operating.  

In 2010, as a result of our work with Mercy Night School, the orphanage asked us to provide school tuition for all the children.  In the years since, we assumed more responsibility and now fund 100% of all orphanage operations, including the staff salaries, food, medicine, clothing, and private K-12 school tuition for the children.  

In 2016, due to the addition of Ebola orphans, the orphanage family grew from 31 to 40 children.  Despite these devastating circumstances, the new children were warmly welcomed into the home.  However, with the addition of the new kids and the old orphanage home in dire need of structural repairs, we knew a new orphanage building was needed.  Over a year of construction, the children moved into a new orphanage home, complete with a well and perimeter fence, in 2016.  Since this time, we've contiuned to expand and upgrade the orphange building.  In 2022, we finished tiling the entire house, added additional windows, and upgraded the electrical system.

Since 2016, the orphanage population has remained relatively steady, with a few new children arriving and older children graduating every year.  Due to the difficulty of finding full-time employment in Liberia, even with a high school diploma, we began funding vocational school programs for graduating seniors soon after the house was built.  Due to the generousity of our donors, these graduates were able to complete vocational programs in nursing, cosmetology, electricity, diesel mechanics, and other disciplines, with many of them now employed in these respective fields.