The Kear Foundation is a Liberian non-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 and Sanitation. 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 sustainable 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 hands 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 life and livelihood of the population. To this end, the organization has commenced its operation in Liberia with offices on S.D. Cooper Road in Paynesville.
Specifically, the Kear Foundation seeks to make concrete, sustainable, and comprehensive intervention in the lives of Liberians, in the area of health care for the less privileged population, especially in rural areas, where there is still a huge challenge in maintaining health facilities, medical equipment, road connectivity, and the comprehensive training of nurses, midwives, and other medical practitioners. To make a lasting intervention, the Kear Foundation will pay specific attention to the following areas:
Maternal Mortality continues to be a plaque in the Liberian health sector. This commences from the point of pregnancy to the point of delivery. If careful attention is paid toward the health conditions of pregnant women from the point of conception to the point of delivery, there is a very low possibility of mortality of the women, especially during child birth.
Our program provides free healthcare to pregnant women within our project catchment area. This continuous intervention throughout all stages of pregnancy to the point of safe delivery, will ensure the prevention of mortality of mothers.
we have employed some of the nation’s best midwives and other highly qualified medical workers in the direction of dealing with these kinds of mortality before they even happen. As it is well known, adequate care before, during and at the point of giving birth improve greatly, the possibility of mothers and children survival.
Kear Foundation is working with existing health facilities, both public or private in finding ways and means of dealing with this kind of problem. A significant amount of our humanitarian efforts is being dedicated towards the alleviation of maternal mortality caused by poor health conditions.
The organization is also involved with providing preventative services and health care education to women and children across Liberia. These services will include, but not limited to: providing resources to conduct annual medical checkups (blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol), screenings (many cancer screenings including mammogram, colonoscopies), awareness on topics such as drug abuse, weight loss, eating healthy, in an attempt to prevent illnesses, diseases and other health problems. Another important part of our intervention into the existing health crisis obtaining in rural Liberia is forging alliances and partnerships with existing public and private medical institutions within our defined catchment area. These kinds of collaboration have led to Kear Foundation providing drugs and other medical supplies and equipment to medical centers.
Infant Mortality is usually caused by poor health conditions of mothers during the time frame of pregnancy. As the Kear Foundation endeavors to maintain good health of mothers and pregnant women, who will eventually give birth to healthy children, the foundation is continuously working with these infants until they reach the period of one year. This venture entails the provision of all required mediation for kids within our catchment area until the period of 12 months, during which all required medications, including required vaccines, and all other essential medicines are provided on a free-of-charge basis until the one-year benchmark is reached.
Another area of Kear Foundation’s intervention is in the area of providing Financial relief to people suffering from Hydrocele (commonly called Hernia).
In Liberia, it is a known fact that the fathers are the most important bread winner for the family. In most rural communities, because fathers engage into very hard manual labor works, which requires heavy lifting, etc., the possibility of being affected with Hernia or Hydrocele becomes prevalent among male parents.
In addition, Kear Foundation is also providing financial assistance for individuals diagnosed with cataract (a medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes progressively opaque, resulting in extremely blurred vision). If cataract is not treated quickly, it results into blindness.
The foundation is undertaking the initiative to provide financial assistance for the cataract surgical removal and post-surgical treatment. Also, Kear Foundation is also intervening financially to provide assistance to medical facilities in the treatment for diseases and the conduct of other minor surgeries on a free of charge basis. The Kear Foundation is also dedicating significant attention towards solving emergency medical problems faced by individuals within our catchment areas.
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.
