The Kear Foundation is a Local Liberian Not-for-profit Organization formed with the aim to among other things, provide humanitarian aid to the suffering masses in the areas of Education, Health, Agriculture, water, Sanitation and hygiene. As it is a known fact that Liberia recently graduated from a protracted period of civil crises and is now on a very optimistic path to national development, graduating from crises to emergence, to sustainability, and now to development aimed at prosperity. The Kear foundation sees this period as a perfect time to participate in the process of national development in the humanitarian sector.
Now that the road to sustained development is becoming clearer by the day, evidence by regular general and presidential elections, the Kear foundation sees this period as a perfect opportunity to make available helping hand to bring about conditions necessary to yield poverty alleviation on the already stranded masses of the population of the country.
Achieving this will require a whole range of planning, programming, communication, coordination, and the development of a wholesome functioning system inculcating all that is required to deliver on set goals and policies designed to promote growth in the lives and livelihoods of members of the population. To this end, the organization has commenced its operation in Liberia with offices on S.D. Cooper Road in Paynesville.
Specific Objectives:
Specifically, the Kear Foundation Seeks to make genuine, sustained, and comprehensive interventions in the lives of dwellers of our areas of concentration, especially in rural areas, where there is still a huge challenge in the delivery of appropriate packages aimed at bringing about relief to dwellers.
Most of these challenges are found within the transport sector, specifically, bad roads connectivity for the deployment of water and Sanitation field workers and equipment. There is also a challenge in the implementation of the Water and Sanitation sectors improvement mechanism organized by the Government of Liberia. In an effort to make lasting intervention, within the very mile of our catchment area, the Kear Humanitarian Foundation will pay specific attention to the following in terms of the delivery of water and sanitation relief packages, which are long-lasting, comprehensive, and requires very little or no attention in the Water and Sanitation Sectors:
1. The purchase, installation, operation of a plastic pyrolysis Plant:
This is the contemporary plastic accumulation and processing plant, which has the capability of converting large quantities of plastic waste into petroleum products, such as gasoline and diesel oil.
The reason behind this is to capture all plastic waste produced in large cities like Monrovia, et al. this process will both reduce plastic waste, (which by research, constitutes a minimum of between 40-75% of all pile of garbage found in cities in Liberia) and produce petroleum products such as gasoline and Diesel fuel. Plastic wastes often end up in the ocean due to over pollution of rivers and creeks by plastic waste that flows into the ocean.
This plastic waste is causing serious marine liter pollution that is resulting in the death and strangulation of marine species due to consumption and entrapment. One pyrolysis can have the capacity to absorb and convert up to 50 tons of plastic waste per day.
If this quantity of waste plastic is removed, municipal governments will be relieved and public cleanliness will return on a permanent basis. I believe that, if this is given the necessary amount of publicity, the population will be very thrilled by the way that they will be experiencing, cleanliness in cities, urban areas, coastal areas, and in the ocean, lakes, and creeks finally.
As large scale and very expensive as this may seem, it captures the best of life’s activities and delivered to the people of Liberia in a three-in-one fashion sustainable cleanliness, gasoline and diesel fuel in exchange for unwanted plastic wastes. Responding to the question of what will happen to the remaining the remaining waste which are not plastics? The response is that quantity will be too small, mostly biodegradable, and requires very less resources to remove using existing set-ups, thanks to Kear Humanitarian Foundation has in place.
As it is said, water is life as sanitation is dignity. Kear Humanitarian Foundation is of the conviction that without water, especially clean drinking water for human consumption and water for other purposes, such as agriculture, industries, and other human and environmental activities, the rate of sicknesses and diseases will sky-rocket, and the growth and development of a nation will be stalled.
Kear Humanitarian foundation believes that there is a very serious need for a swift paradigm shift from the use of multiple hand pumps, which have the disadvantages of having too many troublesome parts, facilitating continuous attention by locals, which are usually unavailable to repair and maintain it, leading to the proliferation of broken-down hand pumps. Therefore, majority of those who were benefitting from those damaged hand pumps revert to the use of contaminated sources and acquiring a huge quantity of waterborne diseases. A Research from UNICEF indicated that at every point in time, there is a minimum of 35% of all hand pumps constructed in rural communities will require repair works and if the necessary repair technicians are not available, the pump ends staying non-operational for the rest of its life spam.
To mitigate these, Kear Humanitarian Foundation proposes a massive cascading of the construction of water harvesting plants capable of delivering clean, safe, processed, available, and affordable water to folks, even at the village levels, it’s impossible at the moment. Here, multiple villages can get hooked up to one water system. This kind of systems, which can be powered using solar energy can require a single maintenance tram of less than 5 people armed with the ability to move around for maintenance purposes along with tool kits and little amounts of pipes and fittings. The operational Detail Implementation Plan (DIP) of these kinds of plants is very simple to draw up and can be less costly to operate for decades. The quality of plant is superior and immune to early degradation.
The Kear Foundation seeks to cover the entire country but now commencing with Montserrado, Margibi, Bomi, Grand Bassa, and Grand Cape Mount counties; after which, we shall operate nationwide. This will provide the latitude to serve a huge number of people across the country simultaneously.
While executing the above mentioned, the Kear Foundation operates an FM Radio station aimed at providing information to the nation about the activities, accomplishment and general deportment of the organization. Although the station is providing exclusive information of our activities nationwide, it is also opened to the airing of the activities of other non-for-profit organizations operating within Liberi. Additionally, the station airs other programs which are aimed at targeting women and children health, safety and wellbeing.
We aspire to adequate coordination, communication, effort streamlining, and synchronization, of activities across the country in an effort to yield maximum delivery of key outputs of activities.
We develop appropriate working tools and delivery pathway aimed at ensuring that our activities and programs reach the intended target and deliver to them the desired relief packages.
We provide humanitarian aid in the areas of Education, Health, Agriculture, water, Sanitation, and hygiene.
