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Founded in 2015, the Confidence, Grace And Faith Ministry (CGF Ministry Liberia) have assisted to fund the education of impoverished children and their families in Gardnersville, Liberia, with lifesaving skills. Working with local community leaders, a basic school opened in 2021 and is a muched loved community hub.

Education changes lives, not just of children but of the whole community. Children are messengers, teaching their parents the benefits of lifesaving skills such as good nutrition, hygiene and sanitation.

CGF Ministry is registered with the ACNC and has ATO Deductible Gift Recipient status via World Relief Australia (WRA).

What we do!

Assist in the provision of education to children and young women to help build a pathway out of poverty

Leah Roberts founded the Confidence, Grace and Faith Ministry to the Women in Liberia (CGF Ministry) in 2015 to help provide relief to the women in Gardnersville, Greater Monrovia, Liberia, which was an area that she had historic connections.

When the first civil war broke out, Leah and her mother were sent to Ghana where they spent 14 years in

a refugee camp. While her mother died in the refugee camp, Leah was relocated to Australia when she was 22 years old.

Post war, she had some contact with her father in Monrovia before he died and saw the atrocious living conditions being endured by the localwomen. Leah prayed with all her heart that God would find a way for her to help the women in Liberia.

Liberia Today

Liberia, one of the poorest countries in the world, has suffered greatly from the lasting effects of a 14-year civil war ending in 2003.

Only a few schools remained open during the conflict, mainly in urban areas, leaving thousands of children out of school. The conflict also destroyed or damaged close to 60 percent of school buildings, including water and sanitation facilities which are key to keeping children, especially girls, in school. Teachers fled the country or took up other forms of employment.

In 2012, just as the country was getting on its feet again, Ebola swept through, decimating the population, leaving 70% of all people under the age of 30 years old.

Why Education

The International Bureau of Education reports that ‘there is a close connection between illiteracy and poverty at all levels, global, national, and subnational; the countries with the lowest levels of literacy are also the poorest economically.

Poverty breeds illiteracy by forcing children to drop out of school to work, and these illiterate people are forced to stay on the lowest levels of the work force and thus remain in poverty.
Thus, illiteracy in turn reinforces poverty, and poverty is cyclical in families. Women and girls are especially vulnerable to the cycle’.

The school in Gardnersville currently caters for young children but our vision is to build a dedicated facility to allow these children to enter higher grade schooling.

Why Women

Our second project is to open a night school for women. Most women in Liberia are illiterate which gives them a poor out look with emplyment. The CGF Ministry would like to help them in a practical way by opening up a night school and teach them a trade such as baking, sewing and soap making. This would be truly life changing!

Truthfully speaking, prayer is the most powerful force on earth. You can be in one place and impact situations around the world simply by asking God to intervene. That’s why it is important for us who are Christians to make prayer a priority and not leave it on the back burner. When we do, we position ourselves to see God’s power in operation, which will happen when his people pray. God’s power activated in response to his people calling upon his name. Please pray for this Ministry!

Our Partners

World Relief Australia (WRA)

WRA has a vision to encourage, support and build partnering relationships between self-help community groups in Australia and developing countries whereby they can network together, and, with the support and assistance of World Relief Australia, to deliver world's best practice relief and development projects to needy communities based on mutual accountability, trust and respect.

WRA has a mission to relieve poverty, suffering and hunger across the planet through community empowerment, irrespective of nationality, race, gender, political conviction or religious belief.

WRA is an organisation that holds Australian Taxation Office Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR1) endorsement, meaning that we:

offer tax-deductibility for donors supporting relief and development projects overseas

offer tax-deductibility for donors supporting initiatives within Australia whose main purpose is to relieve poverty, sickness, suffering or disability

offer tax-deductibility for donors residing in the USA

Building a Pathway out of Poverty via Education in Liberia, West Africa