Partners

Avenue Web Media is a website development and online marketing company that specializes in helping small businesses and non-profit organizations establish a successful online presence. By blending sophisticated graphics, advanced code, friendly functionality, and online marketing, AWM builds robust sites that are essential to conveying professionalism and helping businesses increase sales and non-profit organizations obtain more donations. In the interest of helping the global community, AWM offers free and discounted programs to non-profit organizations.

Now more than ever non-profit organizations need creative ways to increase their revenues to provide life changing programs. For every person who buys wine at Artiste.com and designates The Niapele Project as the beneficiary (with the designated code# 201023), Artiste will provide Niapele with up to 20% of the net proceeds.

Combining a reverence for tradition and a philosophy of winemaking as an artistic expression, Artiste wines are labeled with gorgeous works of impressionist art.

A not-for-profit production company that offers NGOs around the world the chance to have a voice through video. Offering their services to those who would otherwise be left fighting for their causes in the dark due to their lack of resources, Ayoka provides them access to the powerful medium of video, giving them the chance to promote their work and be empowered to make changes in their world.

Buduburam Refugee Concerns International

The Niapele Project is a founding member of this coalition of NGOs and individuals which seeks to raise awareness and advocate for the safeguard of refugee rights. Created in response to the crisis between Liberian refugees and the Government of Ghana, The Niapele Project supports BRCInternational's efforts to protect the rights of refugees.

Ceasefire Liberia is a multimedia project, which aims to document the Liberian experience on both sides of the ocean. It includes a book, documentary film work, and now a blog. The goal of the blog is to connect the Liberian community in Liberia with the rest of the Diaspora in order to create a dialogue between those who fled during the war and those who remained.
To read more about the origins of this project please visit the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, which funded Scars and Stripes, a project about Liberian youth after the war.

The Niapele Project is a proud member of the Coalition for a Sustainable Africa (CSAfrica), a collaboration of non-profit organizations offering sustainable solutions for grass-roots initiatives to empower the people and communities of Africa.

Since its founding, over fifty years ago, EABJM has become the largest non-denominational independent school in France, with 2,900 students in Paris and Lille representing over sixty-five nationalities. EABJM actively supports The Niapele Project.

The Liberian Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Comisssion

The Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC), established by an Act of the Liberian Legislature in 1993, is UNHCR’s Government counterpart. LRRRC has a mandate to provide international protection and find durable solution to refugee problems in Liberia. LRRRC oversees all activities related to refugee and returnee programs in Liberia.

Over the past few years, the activities of LRRRC consistent with its mandate were, amongst others, supporting UNHCR with the resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the repatriation of Liberian refugees in safety and dignity, facilitating their movements to final destinations and their reintegration in Liberia, monitor and address some of the protection problems of other refugees and support the local integration initiative in favor of Sierra Leonean refugees in Liberia.

LRRRC has additional responsibility as a Government body under the 1993 Refugee Act and international conventions to which Liberia is a signatory. To learn more about activities as of June 2009, click here.

Delivering yummy boxed lunches to happy customers! The Lunch Lady's delicious and nutritious cuisine can also be enjoyed at The Niapele Project's events in Los Angeles.

Najla El Zein

Najla has been providing pro-bono graphic design services to The Niapele Project.

Robertsport Community Works is a community-based NGO in Robertsport, Liberia that supports local conservation efforts, runs microenterprise projects and sponsors local surfers.

Vision:Awake Africa for Development's mission is to form long-term partnerships with the community, donor, and volunteers to produce sustainable social, environmental and economic initiatives that result in the eradication of poverty.

Yale Law School

The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic is a Yale Law School course that gives students firsthand experience in human rights advocacy under faculty supervision. The Clinic undertakes a wide variety of projects on behalf of human rights organizations and individual victims of human rights abuse. In 2008, the Clinic produced a report for the Niapele Project on a research project on the rights of former refugees and other internationally displaced people who have been repatriated to their countries of origin.

“Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills-against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence…
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
Robert F. Kennedy