Be A Volunteer!

From its spectacular scenery to its vibrant cities and hospitality, Liberia offers a wealth of opportunity to its visitors. Liberia is regarded as the oldest African countries to gained independence in 1847 by free black slaves from America.

Our volunteer program will help you experience, learn and undertake projects, campaigns and share ideas on issues that are affecting our world today. By volunteering with YCWLiberia is an opportunity to give something to the Liberian people and most importantly, volunteers will also have the opportunity to work within different communities with various sites of Youth Crime Watch. One of our prominent program sites is Gbarnga City, in Bong County.

Gbarnga City is the second largest city in Liberia, well situated in the middle of the Country connecting the rest of the Nation with neighboring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast. The City pays host to a large group of people from diverse cultural, political and social backgrounds. It is indeed one of the multicultural communities not only in the Country but the region surrounded by the rainforest. The Phebe Hospital which served as hope for the entire Mano River Union Countries prior to the civil strife is located in Gbarnga, as well as the second largest University in the Country, the Cuttington University. Gbarnga, like other regions in the interior of the Country, was once upon the time a bread-basket for Liberia. The most viable agriculture institution, the Central Agriculture Research Institute-CARI is also situated in Gbarnga City.

More than that, Gbarnga is a large commercial city where businessmen and women converge from other parts of Liberia itself and other Countries in the sub-region. The people of Gbarnga are predominantly of the kpelle tribe, which is the largest of all of the sixteen tribes in the Country. They are very hospitable, peaceful and hardworking.

In Bong County, of which Gbarnga is the Capitol City, there are historical sites that can not easily be forgotten as far as Liberian history is concerned. You will have the opportunity to visit some of these sites while in the Country. You will visit the great Kpatawee waterfall, the Chief’s Compound, which paid host to past chiefs during the pre-war Gbarnga days, the farm of the late former President, William V.S. Tubman, where lions, leopards and a variety of animals were before the war. A tour of the thick rainforest will surely complete your stay in Liberia.

Above all, this will surely afford you the opportunity to see the City that was seriously hit by the 14-year war. It was considered as the Capital City of Greater Liberia during the war period as the Interim Government.