Imani House
Imani House is a community based multicultural organisation that provides different programmes, services and hope to youth and other low-income residents of Liberia. The organisation started as a learning and support center to promote approaches to building healthy communities and developing neighborhoods to become self-sufficient in order to improve the quality of life of their families, their communities and themselves.
Communication Strategies
Imani House has a maternal and child health care clinic, health education programmes, adult literacy programmes and agriculture.
Imani House’s clinic located in Brewerville serves refugees left stranded by the civil war which had begun in 1990. The organisation works closely with the country's Ministry of Health and local community leaders. The clinic offers family health care services, with a special pediatrics programme, a short-stay in patient facility, family planning and emergency deliveries. It also offers dental care, laboratory services, and workshops in first aid, nutrition, basic health care and disease prevention.
Its adult literacy classes address Liberian’s illiteracy rate. Imani House concentrates on women, who account for the majority of illiterate adults due to a system of limited access to education for most in developing countries. The organisation holds free classes in Waterside, in Monrovia, the capital city and in Brewerville. The participants are made up of market women, petty traders and small business people. Classes are taught by paid tutors who are trained by Imani House.
Imani House offers agricultural training to Liberian farmers. Its demonstration site offers training to local farming families in sustainable agriculture, composting and low input vegetable production.
Imani House’s clinic located in Brewerville serves refugees left stranded by the civil war which had begun in 1990. The organisation works closely with the country's Ministry of Health and local community leaders. The clinic offers family health care services, with a special pediatrics programme, a short-stay in patient facility, family planning and emergency deliveries. It also offers dental care, laboratory services, and workshops in first aid, nutrition, basic health care and disease prevention.
Its adult literacy classes address Liberian’s illiteracy rate. Imani House concentrates on women, who account for the majority of illiterate adults due to a system of limited access to education for most in developing countries. The organisation holds free classes in Waterside, in Monrovia, the capital city and in Brewerville. The participants are made up of market women, petty traders and small business people. Classes are taught by paid tutors who are trained by Imani House.
Imani House offers agricultural training to Liberian farmers. Its demonstration site offers training to local farming families in sustainable agriculture, composting and low input vegetable production.
Development Issues
Health, Agriculture, Education, Economic development.
Key Points
The organisation was founded in 1986 to alleviate poverty and improve the quality of life of individuals and families through programmes that instruct and support the creation of viable communities where residents are decision-makers.
The project aims to enable the organisation to improve communication with its New York counterpart and to train the organisation’s Liberian staff and steering committee to improve their reporting and record keeping, increasing the organisation’s ability to raise additional funds.
The project aims to enable the organisation to improve communication with its New York counterpart and to train the organisation’s Liberian staff and steering committee to improve their reporting and record keeping, increasing the organisation’s ability to raise additional funds.
Sources
AJWS website and Imani House website on May 18 2005
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