LICOS sees it as its duty and privilege to undertake educational and healthcare initiatives and projects in Liberia, such as renovating dilapidated school buildings, distributing educational materials in schools, making vocational training programs possible, and facilitating necessary health care where needed.
What We do
LICOS strives to promote recreational and cultural activities for the Liberian community to unify and enhance its importance. We also seek to intensify friendly relations with other African diaspora communities in Switzerland and Europe.
Our Projects
Generating Funds
LICOS participates in the famous Afro-Pfingsten Festival with a food and beverage stand to celebrate our unique cuisine and generous hospitality
Community Minded
LICOS welcomed and embraced five young Liberian students from war thorn Ukraine and assisted them with, among other things, purchasing their first Halbtax-Abonnement for the public transport system in Switzerland
Education
The LICOS Back-to-School Initiative, in collaboration with the local MOCSA Foundation, supplied fifty students with essential school Materials for the start of a new school year
Health
LICOS supplied the ATCH (Antoinette Tubman Cheshire Home), an Institution that caters to the needs of children and persons with cerebral palsy, mental and physical disabilities, with nine new hospital beds.