How I started Just Art Greetings

By Annette Fortt

Thanks for your interest in running a book / school supplies / pencil drive or collection activity. We are grateful for your contribution to help us make a difference.

Please note that we particularly welcome your donations of school, office and related supplies.

You can send these in without making a donation to cover shipping to Liberia. This is effective until further notice.

To facilitate this process, please review all the information on this page.

Information You Need to Note / What We Need From You

1. Notify us – fill out our convenient online drive registration form

2. Advertise the book / school supplies / pencil drive. Here is a link if you would like a flyer for advertising your Book Drive Postal pdf (Link to Book Drive pdf Flyer)

3. We would like to receive pictures of your activity. Please email them to reliefinc.org/info. You can also mail printed pictures to the address below.

4. We would like to add information about your group and activity to our website and

e-newsletter. There are advantages to adding your information. Your group gets publicity and recognition, and it can motivate other groups. Additionally, this helps us to expand our impact.

5. Should you have any newspaper coverage or create any posters, we would appreciate a copy.

6. Your drive / activity will be carried on at your own risk. As Relief Inc. will not be there physically to participate in or monitor the situation, we cannot be held liable for any occurrences. Please proceed with caution.

7.We require that all book donations include a donation (suggested $50.00 for each average size box of books) to help cover the cost of shipping them.

8.Kindly notify us of what you’re planning to send through our contact form before shipping.

Donations towards shipping can be sent in check, money order or made online here

You may be able to get sponsorship from local businesses to cover shipping costs.

You could raise money through other fund raising means.

Relief Inc. can offer a tax receipt for donations to individuals and businesses in the USA.

Shipping Information

You can ship your supplies to the following address:

Relief, Inc.

2900 Standiford Ave. Suite 16B

PMB 295

Modesto, CA 95350-6575

Additional Information you may find Useful

Relief_Inc_brochure (pdf format): You can print this out or we would be happy to mail several copies to you. Let us know if you need us to mail them.

Should you need additional information, feel free to contact us

Featured Children:

Sponsor A Child In School

Living on less than a dollar a day, approximately one millions Liberian children are all too familiar with extreme poverty.

It has robbed them of hope and threatens to steal their future. Fortunately, through the active participation and generosity of our sponsors, Relief Inc. is providing opportunities for children in desperate need in Liberia. Sponsors play a fundamental part of our program of helping children overcome the mind-set of poverty

View Profiles (Link to Kid Profiles)

Join Relief Inc. and individuals all over the world as we seek to bring love and Compassion to the world’s poorest people. As a KIS sponsor, you can help these children experience the fullness of life and potential that they have and help save a child from a life of poverty. Will you? Sponsor a child now! I strongly believe, that through the weapon of LOVE AND COMPASSION, we will combat war and terrorism by reaching out our hand and helping the families that have been devastated by the 14 ½ years of war.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is KIS sponsorship?

A: Sponsoring a child for just $30 a month is a wonderful way to help bring hope, transforming lives by giving children in need across the globe the tools they need to create better lives for themselves and their entire communities. Being a sponsor through Relief Inc.’s Sponsor a KIS Program will give you the chance to provide opportunity for a child in desperate need and to build a new relationship with one special child.

Q: As a sponsor, what will I receive throughout the year?

A: We will send you a sponsorship package which includes a photo and story of your child, as well as other valuable information about your child’s home once we receive your first monthly gift of $30, throughout the year you will receive a monthly receipt for each payment sent. We will also do our best to provide you with a yearly update on your individual child.

Q: How does sponsorship work?

A: The goal of Relief Inc.’s sponsorship is to equip your child to step boldly into the future. When you make either a onetime gift, or recurring monthly gift your contributions are pooled with that of other sponsors of children in the community where your child lives. Your contributions goes directly to taking care of the child providing, food, water, shelter, clothing, medical supplies ( where necessary), school fees and books and the basic necessitates of life .That means your sponsorship may last for many years. When your child and his or her community reach this goal, Relief Inc. can move on to serve another community in need. When this happens, you’ll be given the opportunity to sponsor a different child in a new community. You will be provided an annual report of your child’s progress

When you sign up to become a KIS sponsor, you join a family of”life givers” around the world who share your commitment to change the world, one child at a time.

Q: Why sponsor a KID through Relief Inc.?

A: Relief Inc.’s KIS sponsorship program creates real, lasting change for children and their communities. Our compassionate staff extends your compassion to all people as they help build healthy communities for children in Liberia’s most impoverished places. Relief Inc. partners with sponsored children’s communities over the long term to address critical needs, secure the future and help communities become self-sustaining.

Who is Relief Inc.?

Relief Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, non-governmental (NGO) organization founded with the aim of facilitating meaningful and sustainable development in Liberia. Relief Inc. is headquartered in Modesto, USA. Relief Inc., Inc. was birthed out of the vision that human resource improvement is the key to humanizing nation-building capacity in Liberia. Through training, scholarship, investment and partnerships Relief Inc. is committed to developing Liberia’s impoverished people through the promotion of transformational education, resource development, investment training and strategic empowerment.

Donate to the General Fund

Give a one-time gift to help Liberia’s poorest children and families. Your charitable donation to Relief Inc.’s General Fund allows us to respond quickly to those suffering from the effects of war, famine, poverty, and neglect. Click here to make a secure, tax-deductible donation of $50, $100, $250, or $500. (Link to donate page) Any amount that you can give will make a difference.

January 10, 2012

Contact: Austin Grant
Enochs High School BSU President
219.789.2641

Commenting on the project, Austin Grant, Enochs High School BSU President stated, “As the new President of the BSU, I want to influence the way the BSU is perceived by steering the club in a new direction, one that truly impacts the members in a positive way as well as what the organization represents. With all of the issues and opportunities that confront our society and the world today, the most responsible thing we could do is to focus our attention on issues that impact the world in a positive fashion. So, as a result, we must change the focus of the BSU. The first project that we are undertaking is the Pencil Project.”

The Pencil Project is open to the general public as well as Enoch High School. To participate in the BSU Pencil Project, stop by Enochs high school, located on 3201 Sylvan Ave. Modesto, CA, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., from February 13-17, 2012.

Grant’s inspiration for the Pencil Project came from the Founder and CEO of Relief Inc., Phebe Dennis-Fortt. Relief Inc. is a 501(C)(3) Non-Profit, NGO Humanitarian Organization that helps people in the local community as well in Liberia, West Africa. This organization caught Grant’s attention because they primarily help women and children. Relief Inc. has partnered with an elementary school in war torn Liberia, West Africa. This school is in need of all kind of school supplies, books and other essential educational items. As a result the Enochs BSU plan on collecting pencils so they can donate them to Relief, Inc. for the children.

We often times don’t really appreciate how fortunate we are to have access to an education, or pay close enough attention to our education. These kids may have to walk miles to go to school and they don’t have the school supplies or technology advances that we have. I hope we can help make a difference with this project,” Grant added.

For more information call the school at: (209) 550-3400, or Austin Grant at: (219) 789-2641″

March 30, 2009

Solano Community College
4000 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield, CA 95434

Contact: Bendu Favor Ndama
Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) Student
Tel: (707) 208-4817
E-mail: favorndama@yahoo.com

Local students raise funds to help build a health clinic in Liberia

Fairfield, CA – Friday, April 3, 2009 Solano Community College students from SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native Americans in Science) and MESA (Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement) in conjunction with various student organizations will be hosting a fundraiser in efforts to raise at least a thousand dollars in support of a new women’s health clinic in Liberia. The clinic will offer preventative and diagnostic care for women who have been victims of ongoing war and sexually transmitted disease. This fundraising event will be held at Solano Community College, 7:00pm to 9:00pm, in the cafeteria.

Keynote speakers and performers presenting at this event include the following: Mrs. Phebe Dennis-Fortt, Founder and C.E.O. of Relief, Inc. and survivor of the Liberian civil war and LaNae Jaimez, Ph.D., a professor at Solano College who received her B.S. at the University of Oklahoma and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, there will be a live dance and drum performance by the Tarlesson Family, a Liberian refugee family from Yolo County who survived four years of hiding from the civil war. There will also be presentations by Solano Community College students.

The Change for Change Campaign Project is open to the public. There will be finger foods, desserts, and music. Entrance fee is $5.00 with student ID or $10.00 without student ID. For list of acceptable donations, please visit: http://www.reliefinc.org/needs.html

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country created by freed slaves from the United States of America who settled in Liberia to live peacefully and end illegal West African slave trade. However, for over 14 devastating years, Liberia underwent a civil war which left many Liberians homeless and destitute. In 2002, Relief Inc., a non-profit organization was established to improve the lives of the people of Liberia. In cooperation with Relief, Inc. Solano College students hope to make a difference in the lives of Liberians in need.

How I started Just Art Greetings

By Annette Fortt

How I started Just Art Greetings

By Annette Fortt

How I started Just Art Greetings

By Annette Fortt

How I started Just Art Greetings

By Annette Fortt

How I started Just Art Greetings

By Annette Fortt