Cote d'Ivoire

Vulnerable communities are experiencing life-threatening hunger as the country faces high rates of poverty.
The West African country remains one of the poorest nations in the world, with the majority of its population living below the poverty line.
Despite the formal end of hostilities with the Accra Peace Agreement of 2003, the effects of this devastating conflict can still be seen today as Liberians grapple with a legacy of destroyed infrastructure and widespread poverty.
The end of the Ebola epidemic was officially announced in 2018 by the World Health Organisation. The economy, which was greatly affected during the epidemic, is still struggling to recover. Chronic malnutrition also remains a persistent public health problem in Liberia.
Liberia has a population of nearly 5 million people.
Liberia ranks 176th out 189 countries in the Human Development Index.
A quarter of Liberians don't have access to clean water.
Our programmes in Liberia include:
We’re working to control the spread of coronavirus in Liberia. Here are some of the activities we’ve carried out so far:
We reached more than 300,000 people through our programmes in Liberia in 2019.
Almost a third of Liberian children under suffer from malnutrition.
We've been working in Liberia since 1990.
Vulnerable communities are experiencing life-threatening hunger as the country faces high rates of poverty.
Despite growing insecurity in the country, we continue to treat children under five for severe malnutrition.
Poverty, widespread malnutrition, Ebola and a weak economy are just some of the problems country faces.