Building Up Liberia Humanitarian Project

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary 1

Mission Statement 2

Vision 2

Jobs 2

Mining 2

Market 3

Methodology 3

Job Site Facilities 3

Conclusion and Outcomes: Long Term Goals with Real Solutions 5

Urban Redevelopment Activities accompanying all Building Up! Projects 6

Maps 7

Liberia History 9

Geography 10

Population 11

Government 13

Economic Overview 14

Transportation 16

Military 17

Invitation Letter from The Republic of Liberia National Investment Commission 18

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYIn recognizing that there is a critical economic crisis imminently threatening the economic survival of thepoorest of the poor countries, we believe that there must be a new vision that generates progress andforward advancement for developing nations. The ongoing economic crisis that is experienced by thirdworld countries is likely to bring the economy of many developing nations to the brink of collapse andthreaten the very survival of their people. This crisis is not helped by the fact that major advancedindustrialized nations around the world are also suffering the very same threat of economic collapse.

Our primary mission is to end global poverty by improving the quality of life through the development ofinfrastructure necessary to build commerce and trade. And, it all begins with the implementation of waterinfrastructure necessary for the farmers to facilitate their purpose as farmers. Furthermore, if these basicareas are not developed and addressed there will be a consistent domino effect that perpetuates povertyand starvation in third world countries.

Part of this domino effect results from people from the rural areas moving into urban communitiessearching for work, thereby, abandoning their farms and resulting in the further deterioration of farmlands. This impact continues to result in the increased need for government programs and housing dueto the influx of people, ultimately creating further strain on already limited and scarce governmentservices.

In other words, the problem goes from one region to more concentrated regions that are alreadyconfronted by major problems. If there is the development of the necessary roads and railways it meansthat commerce can begin. And, once there is an injection of commerce, we no doubt can begin to seethe development of a system that reverses poverty. With that said, poverty can be alleviated bydeveloping the rural areas and communities with the development of water infrastructure and that iswhere our program begins.

Finally, most people have enough pride that they want to earn their way to their dream. People dont justwant a fish; they want to be taught how to fish. And, if people are given jobs, you will have happy peopleand happy families. Liberias economy needs to grow as its infrastructure needs to be strengthened.This summary will show just how to get the economy growing. Building Up Liberia! is a projectdesigned to create purposeful employment across the nation doing common cause environmentallyfriendly programs that are proven successful.

The Building Up Liberia!Humanitarian Project all begins with the implementation of three sub-programs:1. Saltwater Desalination.2. Plasma Gasification of Garbage.3. Infrastructure Redevelopment.

As a result of the implementation of these three sub-programs, there will be the creation of majoragriculture and aquaculture projects, as well as solar and wind energy projects. All of which requires usto develop and construct the electrical grid and development of power stations distributing energythroughout the Liberia.

We and our affiliates offer to build: roads, bridges, tank farms, filling gasoline stations, airports, officebuildings, schools, universities, hospitals, portable and permanent housing, which includes commercialand residential housing, as well as an advanced internet service for the entire country.

Finally, all these projects mean jobs for the people of Liberia. Note that along with building these majorprojects for Liberia, we will also be offering to train people of Liberia to take over the projects when theyare completed. But first, everything begins with LIFE GIVING WATER!

Our program is designed to develop a complete holistic approach that addresses every facet and need inLiberia by meeting them with real solutions. Our hope is to create a model project that shines like abeacon which will not only transform Liberia, but one that can be replicated throughout Africa and theentire world.

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MISSION STATEMENTOur Mission statement is to achieve the following objectives:Eradicate poverty and malnutrition by developing agriculture and aquaculture projects. Strengthen the infrastructure within Liberia and increase commerce and trade via energy efficient

means of transportation.Provide meaningful employment with benefits at competitive wages which will build the Liberia

economy by stimulating the people with payroll earnings.Make a healthy environment by recycling solid waste into usable energy and providing clean water.

VISIONWe see the ability to truly help the Liberian people at a time when economic stability and growth arecrucial to a developing Africa. We visualize providing nearly sixty thousand jobs that will put men andwomen to work, thereby strengthening families. We see an ample supply of clean water for citypopulations and for agricultural crops. We see pipeline solar panels and gasification plants providingenough energy to expand the grid of electrical supply, as well as reducing landfills. We see transportationcosts dropping, thereby, prompting more travel and more commercial development. We see strongconsumerism being established, allowing the ripple effect to triple the number of jobs originally created.

JOBSThe overall plan is to provide over 60,000 direct jobs within all of Liberia. In filling these jobs, the Liberiawork force will be completing our programs that create the means to turn their arid lands into green landswith thriving crops, build a transportation infrastructure, and develop new "green" modern cities, allproviding a healthy environment for all its people.

The projects listed in this summary will open the door to eight different means of employment. There isfull time temporary employment during the planning and construction phases and then there arepermanent jobs to staff the operations.

The eight sectors are: 1. Project management, 2. engineering, 3. excavation, 4. construction, 5.manufacturing, 6. equipment installation, 7. Training, and 8. operations. All eight sectors will beproviding employment totaling an estimated 60,000 jobs.

MINING

Additionally, in the process of developing Liberia, we will be moving earth, which means that resourceswill be discovered. What we propose to do is to collect those resources and monetize them and placethem on a trade platform, depending upon the resource that is mined during the development andmobilization process.

If for example, we discover gold or the platinum group metals these resources can be easily monetizedand placed on trade programs generating major returns for future project development in Liberia. If theresources are diamonds, we can sell the industrial grade diamonds to industries interested procuringthem. If the diamonds are of a high quality, we can again monetize them in order to generate funding foradditional humanitarian projects.

Also, note that if the diamonds are of a specific type such as flat industrial grade diamond crystal

formations, we can direct them into a quantum computing research program for the technologicaladvancement of digital storage and supercomputing.

Additionally, we wish to develop a diamond cooperative among miners that not only buys their diamonds,but also provides miners with the latest "green" mining equipment that preserve the environment anddoes not damage the water table.

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MARKETThere is a real need for eliminating the growing footprint of municipal solid waste and eliminating thehealth hazard that this waste presents to the population. Landfills are undesirable in that they not onlysmell badly and are an eyesore, but they also take up a lot of acreage and produce harmful methanegas. Many major cities are trucking their trash to remote locations, thereby adding fuel expense to theburden of the waste.

We are now at the rate of 150 million tons of waste per year and something positive has to be done

about this problem. The byproducts of the gasification produce fuel to turn turbines that spin a generatorproducing electricity. This project provides a direct economic and green solution to this problem.

The world's thirst for fresh water is growing faster than nature can provide it. By contemplating the scopeof this problem, it is easy to see that water is quickly becoming one of the key resource issues of the 21stcentury. By using reverse osmosis membrane technology, communities in water-stressed areas cannow have access to clean, fresh, and affordable water from salt water desalination.

METHODOLOGYThree large scale projects are planned. One will supply 100 million gallons of water per day to as manyas 15-20 major cities throughout heavily populated and remote regions of Liberia. This project includes10 desalination plants; 10 wastewater plants; collection & distribution systems (bringing water andwastewater to and from plants) and 10 saltwater intake stations. The sum total of pipeline is 9,328 kmor 5,796 miles.

A second project will put 6,516 kilometers of high-speed monorail train system from border-to-border,providing an affordable alternative to automotive and air travel between major cities. The third will put 25gastrification plants in all major cities throughout Liberia which will, per plant, gasify approximately 600tons-per-day of class 1 municipal solid waste (MSW) and approximately 60 tons-per-day of scrap tires,producing 18 to 20 net megawatts of electricity and a variable steam offload to local hosts.

We have the work to be done; negotiating, writing environmental impact statements, surveying,engineering, construction, manufacturing, installation, testing and finally operations management. Thatis the easy part. We chose to implement a large-scale project like these at multiple sites in parallel, but

just out of phase. This accomplishes two important and powerful factors. First, the out of phaseprojects allow the experts to prove-out the engineering and process flow. Then we can distribute theknown good procedure and plans to be used like a cookie cutter reproducing the same quality product ateach site.

Second, the multiple sites in parallel allow us to employ the maximum number of people concurrently.This second factor really delivers a punch in establishing an economy because a lot of people havepurchasing power in the same time period.

Our time lines will be much shorter than traditional single general contractor projects. This is directly dueto the multiple sites in parallel method of implementation. We will have many independent generalcontractor companies running their crews according to the procedures and plans our management hasapproved. There is no better way to shorten the project timeline than being able to reproduce onesefforts many times over.

Lastly, by employing many general contractors at one time, we are at work in many locationssimultaneously. This aspect of our management allows each state to gain in the benefit of newcommerce.

JOB SITE FACILITIESTo administrate and coordinate such large scale projects, we will need an Operations Base Facility. Thisfacility will serve several purposes. It will have the operations offices of all the administrative staff,program managers, and contractor project leaders.

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It will provide housing for the staff, the trainees and guests. This base camp will provide indoor storagefor many of the plant equipment prior to being trucked to the job site, as well as providing outdoorcovered storage for construction vehicles and uncovered storage for pipe and other raw materials.

The base camp will provide facilities for Administrative staff, including executive administration, programmanagement, training, medical support, food preparation, and janitorial support totaling about 40personnel.

The facilities will also provide housing for staff, 100 students, contractors, Project Leaders, and guestswhich will require 200 units/apartments, as well as management offices, cafeteria, and recreation area.

This facility will include twelve (12) two-storey buildings with fifteen (15) units on the ground floor with thetwo-hundred apartments mentioned above.

Also needed are vehicle storage facilities where most of the earth moving equipment will be parked onthe job site along the pipeline route. Storage facilities will also house construction materials which mustbe no less than an enclosed 300,000 square feet space.

Also needed are enclosed outdoor pipe storage for 900 foot lengths (30 day supply/10 miles of pipeline),as well as a helicopter landing pad for travel from site to site.

Total Acreage for Base Operations: 80 acres

Port city of Buchanan: proposed base camp site and point of entry

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CONCLUSIONS & OUTCOMES: LONG TERM GOALS WITH REAL SOLUTIONSWe expect this project to grow the commerce in Liberia. The three components are something thegeneral public can identify with. Pride and unity can be found in these projects that build theinfrastructure of Liberia and clean up its environment.

These projects are labor intensive, construction, manufacturing, installation and service oriented. Theseprojects will put dollars in the hands of tens of thousands people. That fact will produce change in theeconomy, because it is human nature that once our needs are met we will spend.

That spending will have a ripple effect in all aspects of commerce, restaurants, clothing, electronics,home remodeling, home purchase, automotive purchases, appliance, furniture, entertainment, tourism,and etc. Our goal is to make Liberia a model nation that can be an example for other countriesthroughout the world.

Over the course of development of Building Up Liberia!these projects will clean up water and garbagesystems, producing a cleaner and healthier environment for all to live and enjoy. It will enlighten allpeople to understand that they can now grow healthy foods, have plenty of water for future generationsof Liberia. By building these step-projects and producing enough food and water, Liberia will never bedependent on others to live and prosper in a global race to insure Liberias future growth, will stand andsurvive.

We consider these humanitarian efforts will bring unity and peace when people of Liberia, have real jobs,working together, to bring better living conditions to their country. The funding can be raised for thesehumanitarian projects by resources that can be traded on commercial markets to finance these projects,if, all requirements and regulations are followed legally and obeyed.

Water is the one world resource that nobody can live without, but everyone takes for granted that naturalwater resources will flow on forever. When in truth, the world water supplies are dangerously low, andless than one (1) percent of fresh water remains globally. Having a real solution to this major problem,gives the people of Liberia, a new insight and hope, that will travel to every country in Africa, through itspeople, not to mention that voice will be heard throughout the world.

This new type of unity between these projects in Liberia, designed to accomplish everything needed tobring Liberias economy full circle into the 21st century, will insure prosperity for Liberias people.

Finally and in closing One Arts global Building Up Program will focus on:1. Sustainable Livelihood [Microenterprise Development] Program develops the entrepreneurial and

technical skills of the poor for Poverty Reduction by enabling them to manage sustainable micro-enterprises and linking them to locally available jobs in order to enhance their access to basic socialservices and their standard of living.

2. Industrial and Economic Development Program to assist more people to enter the workforce.3. National Infrastructure of Urban and Rural Venture Programs designed to building bridges, roads,

schools, hospitals, housing, office buildings, and railway system.4. Agricultural and Irrigation Development Programs to assist all farmers and other agricultural workers

to maintain and sustain their demands and needs.5. Green Mining Programs designed to introduce environmentally friendly mining practices throughout

the world in order to protect the environment.

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URBAN REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES ACCOMPANYING ALL BUILDING UP PROJECTS

1. Health To acquire by purchase or lease, rent lands and other properties for the construction of Offices, Laboratories, Hospitals, Housing and for

the establishment of Medical Herbs plantation. A research and development for conservation and cultivation to uncover the secrets ofMother Natures way.

To provide charitable services, medical services and Free Natural/Organic Foods Herbal Supplements. Implement a research anddevelopment program designed to eradicate obesity and reduce a disease population in Global scale, transforming the methods of foodproduction on a preventive approach in Health Care System.

To engage a strategy of mass production of low cost herbal medicines for the consumption of social health reform throughout third worldcountries among the poorest of poor nations all over the world.

To assist departments of agriculture for the protection and conservation and preservation of natural organic and marine food productionwithout artificial or synthetic feeds. Research and Development, a cost effective methods to abundant produce foods and medicines in thenatures way in the Green Revolution.

2. Education Scholarship Assistance Program intended designed to following Scholar Beneficiaries from primary Collegiate/University Scholar Level.

One hundred (100%) percent for deserving Students, Primary Scholarship and Secondary to Collegiate/University level who have aaverage rate of 90% per standard entry examination and 80% to 70% per standard entry examination.

Support for the primary and secondary schools. Formation and motivation of the teachers. Motivation of the technical and university higher education. Modernization and Equipments of training centers and students. Motivation Funding for professors and teachers.

Agricultural training and halieutic.

3. Purification, Water Treatment, and Waste recycling Construction, rehabilitation, renovation of water desalination plants. Construction, rehabilitation, renovation of processing centers of waste water. Construction, rehabilitation, renovation of the processing centers of the household hospitable, industrial waste and valuation by the

recycling and the power production.

4. Transport Renovation and Construction of Road Construction of Highways, Bridges, Freeways and Flyovers to be cemented for the means of Land

transportation to be constructed in all kinds of proposed road improvement. Development of Railway, such as Light Railing System and Bullet Trains to be routed out connecting Major Cities and Provinces.

Development of seaports and river canals. Development and modernization of airports and aerodromes.

5. Industrial and Technological Development Creation, development, support to the industries of processing and subcontracting. Development of the crafts and the trade. Development of the exportable productions. Development of the High-speed Internet and services for the companies and for the Internet users. Creation of Centers: R&D, Technological Parks, Platform/incubator of Innovations.

6. Energy Construction, rehabilitation, renovation of electrical grid. Development of the renewable energies: solar, wind, geothermal, hydraulic, and biomass.

7. Mining Introduction of advanced green environmentally friendly mining programs. Redevelopment of oil refineries.

8. Construction Redevelopment Program designed to build and construct public facilities with modern fire safety codes, which including hospitals and

clinics, homeopathic care facilities, rural clinics, schools colleges and universities, with options of first aids clinics, indoors/outdoors sports,gymnasiums, gaming/amusements with clean toilets and bathrooms, parking lots for cars, motorcycles and bicycles , water

drainage/canals, supplies of sanitary chemicals and public papers toiletries and safety tanks deposit and public trash cans. Houses and Buildings - portable and fixed structures will be built in order to adapt to the expectations of the population and relocation

thereof from unsafe housing into newly developed community.

Businesses and Craft Buildings will be built for existing businesses and the creation of factories such as plastic injection model and light toheavy assembly work.

Agricultural Projects: optimization of the exploitations and the responsible development: cereal, truck-farming, fruit agriculture, andbreeding.

Development of the farms: intensive halieutic and valuation of the fish (markets transformation, export) Valuation of the territories of production: irrigation (and retained), roads for the transfer of the productions, financing of the exploitations,

purchases of seeds, tools and adapted equipment. Research and development of the species and their intensive, but environment-friendly future exploitation: quantity, quality, renewal of the

species, the social price (prevention of grounds). Development of new food resources by respecting the biodiversity. Hygienic and technological optimization of freeze-drying, canning factory, and preparations.

Creation of refrigerated platforms.

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MAPS

West Africa

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Grand Bassa and the City of Buchanan

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LIBERIA HISTORY

Liberia is located in Sub-Saharan Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Cote d'Ivoire and SierraLeone.

In August 2003, a comprehensive peace agreement ended 14 years of civil war and prompted the resignation of formerpresident Charles TAYLOR, who was exiled to Nigeria. The National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) -composed of rebel, government, and civil society groups - assumed control in October 2003. Chairman Gyude BRYANT,who was given a two-year mandate to oversee efforts to rebuild Liberia, heads the new government. The United NationsMission in Liberia (UNMIL), which maintains a strong presence throughout the country, completed a disarmamentprogram for former combatants in late 2004, but the security situation is still volatile and the process of rebuilding thesocial and economic structure of this war-torn country remains sluggish.

The First Liberian Civil War in 1989-96 destroyed much of Liberia's economy, especially the infrastructure in and aroundMonrovia. Many businessmen fled the country, taking capital and expertise with them. Some returned during 1997, butmany have not. Richly endowed with water, mineral resources, forests, and a climate favorable to agriculture, Liberia hadbeen a producer and exporter of basic products, while local manufacturing, mainly foreign owned, had been small inscope.

The democratically elected government, installed in August 1997, inherited massive international debts and currentlyrelies on revenues from its maritime registry to provide the bulk of its foreign exchange earnings. The restoration of theinfrastructure and the raising of incomes in this ravaged economy depend on the implementation of sound macro andmicro-economic policies of the new government, including the encouragement of foreign investment.

The Liberian economy had relied heavily on the mining of iron ore prior to the civil war. Liberia was a major exporter ofiron ore on the world market. In the 1970s and 1980s, iron mining accounted for more than half of Liberia's exportearnings. Since the coup d'tat of 1980, the country's economic growth rate has slowed down because of a decline in thedemand for iron ore on the world market and political upheavals in Liberia. Liberia's foreign debt amounts to more than $3billion.

However, in recent years (2005 - 2012), foreign investment from Mittal Steel, BHP Biliton, and China Union is aiding therevitalization of the iron mining sector; meanwhile, Liberia's debt has been reduced signicantly from assistance from theWorld Bank, the United States, EU, AND the IMF to as low as under $500,000 USD.

Timber and rubber are Liberia's main export items since the end of the war. Liberia earns more than $100 million andmore than $70 million annually from timber and rubber exports, respectively. Alluvial diamond and gold mining activitiesalso account for some economic activity.

Being the second-largest maritime licenser in the world with more than 1,700 vessels registered under its flag, including35% of the world's tanker fleet, Liberia earned more than $18 million from its maritime program in 2000. The LiberianGovernment has declared in recent months that it has discovered sizable amounts of crude oil along its Atlantic coast.

Liberia's business sector is largely controlled by foreigners mainly of Lebanese and Indian descent. There also are limitednumbers of Chinese engaged in agriculture. The largest timber concession, Oriental Timber Corporation (OTC), isIndonesian owned. There also are significant numbers of West Africans engaged in cross-border trade. Legal monopoliesare possible; for example, Cemenco holds a monopoly on cement production.

Liberia is a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). With Guinea and Sierra Leone, itformed the Mano River Union (MRU) for development and the promotion of regional economic integration. The MRUbecame all but defunct because of the Liberian civil war which spilled over into neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Liberia has relied heavily on vast amounts of foreign assistance, particularly from the United States, Japan, Britain,France, Italy, Germany, the People's Republic of China, and Romania. But because of the Liberian Government'sperceived disregard for human rights, foreign assistance to Liberia has declined drastically. The Republic of China(Taiwan) and Libya are currently the largest donors of direct financial aid to the Liberian Government. However,significant amounts of aid continue to come in from Western countries through international aid agencies and non-governmental organizations, avoiding direct aid to the government.

The United Nations imposed sanctions on Liberia in May 2001 for its support to the rebels of the Revolutionary UnitedFront (RUF) in neighboring Sierra Leone. These sanctions have been lifted following elections in 2005.

In March 2010, Bob Johnson, founder of BET, funded the first hotel constructed in Liberia in 20 years. The 13-acre(53,000 m2) luxury resort was built in the Paynesville section of Monrovia.

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GEOGRAPHY

Geographic Coordinates:6 30 N - 9 30 W

Area:total: 111,370 sq km

Land: 96,320 sq km

Water:15,050 sq km

Land Boundaries: total: 1,585 km

Border Countries: Guinea 563 km, Cote d'Ivoire 716 km, Sierra Leone 306 km

Coastline:579 km

Maritime Claims: territorial sea: 200 nm

Climate:tropical; hot, humid; dry winters with hot days and cool to cold nights; wet, cloudy summers with frequentheavy showers

Terrain:mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast

Elevation Extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 mHighest point: Mount Wuteve 1,380 m

Natural Resources: iron ore, timber, diamonds, gold, hydropower

Land Use: arable land: 3.95%

Permanent Crops: 2.28%Other:93.77% (2001)Irrigated Land:30 sq km (1998 est.)

Natural Hazards:dust-laden harmattan winds blow from the Sahara (December to March)

Environment - Current Issues:tropical rain forest deforestation; soil erosion; loss of biodiversity; pollution ofcoastal waters from oil residue and raw sewage

Environment - International Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-KyotoProtocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83,Tropical Timber 94 signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation

Geography - Note:facing the Atlantic Ocean, the coastline is characterized by lagoons, mangrove swamps, andriver-deposited sandbars; the inland grassy plateau supports limited agriculture

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POPULATION

3,482,211 (July 2005 est.)

Age Structure:

0-14 years: 43.6% (male 765,662/female 751,134)

15-64 years: 52.8% (male 896,206/female 940,985)

65 years and over: 3.7% (male 64,547/female 63,677) (2005 est.)

Median Age:

Total: 18.06 years

Male: 17.69 years

Female: 18.42 years (2005 est.)

Population Growth Rate:

2.64% (2005 est.)

Birth Rate:

44.22 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Death Rate:

17.87 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Net Migration Rate:

0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Note: at least 200,000 Liberian refugees are in surrounding countries; the uncertain security situation has hindered their ability to

return (2005 est.)

Sex Ratio:

At Birth: 1.03 male(s)/female

Under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 1.01 male(s)/female

Total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate:

Total: 128.87 deaths/1,000 live births

Male: 135.64 deaths/1,000 live births

Female: 121.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)

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Life Expectancy at Birth:

Total population: 38.89 years

Male: 37.03 years

Female: 40.81 years (2005 est.)

Total Fertility Rate:

6.09 children born/woman (2005 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:

5.9% (2003 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:

100,000 (2003 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths:

7,200 (2003 est.)

Major infectious diseases:

Degree of Risk: very high

Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: malaria andyellow fever are high risks in some locations water contact disease: schistosomiasis aerosolized dust or soil contact disease:Lassa fever (2004)

Ethnic groups:

Indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei,Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), CongoPeople 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves)

Religions:

Indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 40%, Muslim 20%

Languages:

English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence

Literacy:

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write

Total Population: 57.5%

Male: 73.3%

Female: 41.6% (2003 est.)

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GOVERNMENT

Government type:Republic

Capital:Monrovia

Administrative Divisions:15 counties; Bomi, Bong, Gbarpolu, Grand Bassa, Grand Cape Mount, Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru,Lofa, Margibi, Maryland, Montserrado, Nimba, River Cess, River Gee, Sinoe

Independence: 26 July 1847

National Holiday:Independence Day, 26 July (1847)

Constitution:6 January 1986

Legal System: Liberia has a dual system of statutory law based on Anglo-American common law for the modern sector andcustomary law based on unwritten tribal practices for indigenous sector.

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

Head of Government:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th and current President of Liberia. She served as Minister of Financeunder President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'tat, after which she left Liberia.

Cabinet:Cabinet appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate; note - current cabinet positions are divided among

groups participating in the Liberian peace process.

Elections: President elected by popular vote for a six-year term (renewable); election last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held 11October 2005)

Legislative Branch:Bicameral National Assembly consists of the Senate (30 seats - number of seats changed in 11 October2005 elections; members elected by popular vote to serve nine-year terms) and the House of Representatives (64 seats;members elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms).

Judicial Branch: Supreme Court

International Organization Participation:ACP, AfDB, AU, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM,IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, NAM, OPCW (signatory), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO,UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO

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ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

GDP (USD): $1.734 billion 2012 / $2.903 billion (2004 est.)

Population (Total): 4.190 million 2012

GDP Per Capita: 421.70 USD (2012)

GDP - Composition by Sector:

Agriculture: 76.9%

Industry: 5.4%

Services: 17.7% (2002 est.)

Labor Force - by Occupation:Agriculture 70%, Industry 8%, Services 22% (2000 est.)

Unemployment rate:85% (2003 est.)

Population below Poverty Line:80%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

Lowest 10%: NA

Highest 10%: NA

Agriculture - Products: rubber, coffee, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), palm oil, sugarcane, bananas; sheep, goats; timber

Industries:rubber processing, palm oil processing, timber, diamonds

Industrial production growth rate: NA

Electricity - Production:488.8 million kWh (2002)

Electricity - Production by Source:

Fossil Fuel: 100%

Hydro: 0%

Nuclear: 0%

Other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - Consumption:

454.6 million kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - Imports: 0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption: 3,100 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - imports: NA

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Exports: $1.079 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

Exports - commodities: rubber, timber, iron, diamonds, cocoa, coffee

Exports - partners: Denmark 29.5%, Germany 18.9%, Poland 14.3%, US 8.9%, Greece 8% (2004)

Imports: $5.051 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

Imports - commodities: fuels, chemicals, machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods; foodstuffs

Imports - partners: South Korea 38.8%, Japan 21.2%, Singapore 12.2%, Croatia 5.3%, Germany 4.2% (2004)

Debt - external: $2.1 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $94 million (1999)

Currency (code): Liberian dollar (LRD)

Currency code: LRD

Exchange rates: Liberian dollars per US dollar - 54.906 (2004), 59.379 (2003), 61.754 (2002), 48.583 (2001), 40.953 (2000)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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TRANSPORTATION

Railways:

Total: 490 km

Standard Gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge

Narrow Gauge: 145 km 1.067-m gauge

Note: none of the railways are in operation because of the civil war (2004)

Highways:

Total: 10,600 km

Paved: 657 km

Unpaved: 9,943 km (1999 est.)

Ports and Harbors: Buchanan and Monrovia

Merchant Marine:

Total: 1,465 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 50,555,752 GRT/79,125,329 DWT

By Type: barge carrier 3, bulk carrier 275, cargo 91, chemical tanker 173, combination ore/oil 22, container 388, liquefied gas78, passenger 2, passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 324, refrigerated cargo 57, roll on/roll off 6, specialized tanker 9, vehiclecarrier 35

Foreign-Owned: 1,392 (Argentina 8, Australia 2, Austria 13, Bahamas 3, Brazil 6, British 1, Canada 2, Chile 1, China 36, Croatia7, Cyprus 1, Denmark 5, France 3, Germany 511, Greece 149, Hong Kong 29, India 4, Indonesia 1, Isle of Man 5, Israel 7, Italy12, Japan 106, Latvia 18, Monaco 10, Netherlands 18, Nigeria 1, Norway 57, Pakistan 1, Poland 14, Romania 1, Russia 63,Saudi Arabia 23, Singapore 29, Slovenia 1, South Korea 4, Sweden 12, Switzerland 10, Taiwan 54, Turkey 4, Ukraine 7, UAE10, United Kingdom 56, United States 84, Uruguay 3) (2005)

Airports: 53 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:

Total: 2

Over 3,047 m: 1

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

Total: 51

1,524 to 2,437 m: 5

914 to 1,523 m: 8

Under 914 m: 38 (2004 est.)

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MILITARY

Military Branches:Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL): Army, Navy, Air Force

Military service age and obligation:18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2001)

Manpower available for military service:males age 18-49: 659,795 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:males age 18-49: 360,373 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $1.5 million (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:0.2% (2004)

Data gathered from LISGIS: Liberia Institute of Statistics & Geo-Information Services,The World Bank, Wikipedia, and About.com.

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One Art, Inc. (OAI) is a not-for-profit humanitarian foundation registered in Florida established in 1978 and is the primary funding source andcontracted developer to all projects presented herein. For project budget information contact:

Alexander Prado (305) 809-0509 - email:[email protected]
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Building Up Liberia Humanitarian Project