FOUNDING
Korha International is a non-governmental, non-political, and non-profit organization founded in 2012 but got officially registered and incorporated on April 10, 2013 with the Liberia Business Registry. On May 15, 2013, we received accreditation as a National NGO by the Ministry of Planning & Economic Affairs (now Ministry of Finance & Development Planning) of the Republic of Liberia. In
addition to receiving national accreditation, Korha International, within the same year, was also given sectorial clearances from the following ministries of the Government of Liberia, namely: (1) Ministry of Education, (2) Ministry of Youth & Sports, (3) Ministry of Gender & Development (now Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection), and (4) Ministry of Health & Social Welfare (now simply Ministry of Health), respectively. OUR VISION
To be a respectable and preferred human, social, and community development services provider and partner of choice across nations. OUR MISSION STATEMENT
To be a conduit, a propagator, and a facilitator of any and all good things that strengthen and benefit people and communities in need, thereby creating the enabling environment for them to maximize available opportunities to become self-reliant and ameliorate their quality of life. OUR VALUES
* Compassion * Respect * Trust * Accountability * Integrity * Fairness
PROFILE OF THE PRESIDENT & CEO
A transformational and visionary leader with strong expertise in providing, facilitating, and directing resources that create the enabling environment for disadvantaged persons and communities to adequately utilize to help themselves ameliorate their standard of living. Health and Human Services Professional skilled in developing effective programs for human and community development. Possess supervising and managing experience of teams to produce desirable outcomes. Proven track record of initiating and successfully implementing very impactful rural and urban community-based projects. Demonstrated ability to relate and work well with others in and outside of a team. Highly service-oriented and people-centered. Core Skills
● Communication abilities ● Transformational Leader ● Organizing
● Strong decision-maker ● Passionate humanitarian ● Visionary leader
● Accurate Accountability ● Service-oriented ● Creative
● Internet navigation ● MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
● Result-driven
MAJOR FACTORS THAT MOTIVATED THE PRESIDENT & CEO INTO THIS PROFESSION
Personal experience growing up in underprivileged conditions.
Terrifying ordeals experienced as a teenager during most part of the 14-year cataclysmic civil war of Liberia: going days without food and safe drinking water, near death experience at the hands of armed men, seeing children/youth dying of hunger, etc.
Fundamental Christian tenets: Love and Compassion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem: A Psalm of Life. OUR CORE PROGRAMS of FOCUS:
Education – facilitating the provision of educational enhancement services, such as after-school programs; facilitating resources for the construction and equipping of schools where there is need; providing/facilitating the provision of financial aid and/or scholarships to well deserving grade-school, vocational training institute, and college students.
Healthcare – facilitating resources for the construction and equipping of health facilities in hard-to-reach communities; facilitating the provision of medical and mental health services to persons and communities in need through organized medical outreach and psychosocial services.
Economic Empowerment – facilitating the availability of resources and creating enabling opportunities through job placement, petty trade loan, vocational skills training, agribusiness initiatives, and so forth for deserving persons, families, and communities, so that they can become self-reliant.
Agriculture – supporting or facilitating food crops cultivation and animal husbandry for families and communities to achieve sustained food security.
Advocacy – advocating and facilitating for effective working solutions to the growing problems of vulnerable children/youth population, SGBV cases, and underprivileged communities having access to safe drinking water and decent public latrines. BRIEF HISTORY of KORHA INTERNATIONAL
Over the ten years of its existence, Korha International has been engaged, mainly, into providing and facilitating educational, healthcare, and economic empowerment services, as well as some advocacy, in both urban and rural communities of Liberia. EDUCATION: We provided after-school tutorial and outreach program, as well as distributed basic school supplies, to children in the Jallah Town community in central Monrovia from 2013-2018. Based on the specific request of a grade-school in the VOA Community, Paynesville, we donated to the school a set of desktop computer in 2013. From 2018 to present, we have been extensively involved in providing and facilitating educational initiatives in hard-to-reach rural communities, particularly in Quessemba Town, Lofa County, and Gbanko Town, Margibi County, where we have assisted with and facilitated support for the construction and equipping of primary schools. Korha International has also been helpful in providing financial aid to some grade-school students (about 15 students in both Lofa County and in the capital) and facilitated scholarships to few college students (about four students in the nursing, midwifery, and education programs in higher learning institutions in Liberia. HEALTHCARE: Korha International has facilitated the provision of health tips to some residents of both urban and rural communities. On a grand scale, in December 2020, in collaboration with ELWA Hospital (they provided the medical professionals) and Samaritan’s Purse International Relief (they transported the medical team to and fro with their helicopter) we organized and facilitated a successful three-day medical outreach in Quessemba Town, Lofa County but with the plan of being able to directly impact about 15-20 surrounding towns and villages, including neighboring communities across the border in Guinea. The outreach team of 3 Medical Doctors (Dr. Rick Sacra, Dr. Biligan Sagno-Korha, and Dr. Shuga Gono), a visiting Licensed Practical Nurse from the US, and a Registered Nurse, all assisted by 3 local nurses and a medication dispenser from different parts of that rural region, provided free medical consultations and distributed free medications to over 600 persons from various towns and villages. Similarly, in April 2022, as part of a planned event in Quessemba Town, Dr. Sagno-Korha, being assisted by two nurses, was given the platform to provide free health education on Hypertension and Diabetes to about a hundred participants. In addition to providing health education, having received two suitcases of donated assorted drugs through Dr. Rick Sacra, the assisting nurses, under the direct supervision of Dr. Sagno-Korha, distributed those medications to, firstly, the 100 participants of the program, and then the rest of it to almost 200 other residents in the town, based on their specific medical needs. We can also mention that during the Ebola disease epidemic of 2014/2015 and the 2019/2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Korha International engaged in volunteer community awareness in both urban and rural communities to sensitize people about those outbreaks, respectively. At this current moment, a modern clinic construction is at the point of completion in Quessemba Town, Lofa County. We mobilized the residents to contribute their quota and we have facilitated the support of resources for the project. ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT: We have over the years created and facilitated the enabling environment whereby individuals, families, and communities have been able to help themselves in improving their standard of living. For instance, for some, we have provided small short-term loans to help them engage into petty trading. For others, we have helped to sponsor them in short-term vocational skills training programs, so that they can attain some livelihood skills. And for those with some specific learned skills, we have facilitated in getting job placement opportunities for them. Furthermore, we have worked with communities, such as Gbanko Town in Margibi County, Gorwu Village in Grand Cape Mount County, and Quessemba Town in Lofa County, in making available the tools they needed to engage in economically viable activities. In Gorwu Village, they requested for a water pump machine and we purchased and turned it over to them. In Gbanko Town, they requested for a power generator and we purchased and turned it over to them. And in Quessemba Town, we received and turned over to them agricultural equipment and assorted gardening seeds from Christian Aid Ministries for the residents to form cooperative farming groups, in addition to us facilitating the awarding of a wood-sawing contract to them by a pastor. ADVOCACY: The President and CEO of Korha International is passionate about vulnerable children and he has an extensive professional experience in working with said group. Hence, we have engaged the youth & sports ministry in the past and some other private stakeholders about tailoring specific services and support that would be of transformational help to the at-risk population. Focus and support has been lacking, nationally, when it comes to this group but we will continue to advocate for their interest and engage some major stakeholders. The astronomical rise in illicit drug abuse among the youth, r**e and SGBV incident cases around the country is even more appalling and it only behooves us the more as a people to provide intervening programs that mitigate the already worsening situation. Also, in December 2015-January 2016, Korha International made some advocacy on behalf of few communities that had been faced with abhorring drinking water conditions, and, fortunately, UNICEF donated to us 50 bottles of HTH chlorine, which we distributed for well water chlorination to four urban and rural communities of Liberia that depended heavily on well water. Gladly, in March 2020, we organized and spearheaded a three-day free-of-charge Leadership Conference in Quessemba Town. This brought together over hundred participants from all works of life and from several different towns and villages in the region, including our Guinean neighbors. Some of the participants included church leaders, town chiefs, community leaders, and so forth. The Guest speaker was Dr. Shirley from the USA. Participants were thought some of the important leadership skills and also given some materials on leadership, in addition to being provided decent meals throughout (breakfast, lunch, and dinner). OUR IMMEDIATE NEEDS:
Project/Program Implementing Partnership
Financial and In-kind Support
