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Rev. S. Tosha Brown
Sr., Executive Director/CEO
Monrovia,
Liberia
Cell #:
001-231-6511978 E-mail address: hghfi@yahoo.com
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Staff at Dedication of Recent Projects at Havious Foundation
HGHF strategic plan for 2010 presents our vision for the next three years of the Foundation. It represents our aspiration for fulfilling the Great Commission of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ in Liberia. This plan responds directly to the challenges confronting the achievement of HGHF’s mission. These areas of challenge include evangelism, holistic health care, holistic education, and the establishment of adequate institutional capacity to fulfill the mission of HGHF.
This strategic planning process began with a request of HGHF to the Association of Evangelicals of Liberia. A strategic planning workshop was held with the founder of HGHF and employees represented. A consultant of AEL, Rev. D. Emmanuel Williams, II, facilitated the process and developed the first draft. The draft was circulated for comments.
Following the circulation of the first draft, a Strategic Plan Review Session was held with the aim of completing the plan.
HGHF strategic plan is designed with four (4) goals. Each goal seeks to address a key challenge associated with the achievement of our mission as an institution.
The civil war in Liberia imposed severe suffering on the estimated 3.5 million inhabitants of the country. Lives and socio-economic services and the nation’s health, educational, and water/sanitation sectors were massively destroyed. Towns and villages were burned down and thousands of villagers and urban dwellers were slaughtered by fighters. Others died from hunger and diseases. Farming, the major source of income and means of survival for rural dwellers, were abandoned due to insecurity. Farm implements and planning materials including seeds for village farmers were either destroyed or looted by armed fighters.
The civil war and the current economic status of the country are the main causes of poverty in Liberia. The prolonged civil war has displaced more than one hundred and fifty thousand persons in Liberia. Over 90% of the population of Liberia lived displaced. Most of them are languishing in IDP Camps in the country. Others have fled into the forests and other parts of Liberia. About 95% of the country is without safe drinking water and electricity. Another cause of poverty in Liberia is the deplorable economic situation in the country. Most families in and out of the IDP camps depend on relief assistance for their survival. There are very few industries operating in the country. A third cause of poverty is the inability of the government to adequately distribute available resources to its citizens. The vast majority of the working population is out of employment. Most farmers do not have the tools or capital to restart farming activities. Most farm activities cannot sustain the farmers’ families.
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