Recognized as a champion for underprivileged and deprived communities, Sherrie Gearheart (founder of the Live Out Loud Charity) will visit Liberia to inspire young people after the Ebola Crisis, deliver message about suicide prevention, HIV, and provide women empowerment awareness into local schools and communities.
Liberia is Africa's oldest republic nation with about 85% of the population living below the international poverty line. The country is recovering from two civil wars and the recent Ebola crisis. “When I learned that there are people in Liberia especially the children who struggle to survive daily and live in extreme poverty, I vowed to make a difference. Liberia is a third world country that is very poor and has lost so much hope as a result of the recent Ebola crisis. Together we can make the nation stronger and give hope. We will save lives and inspire the youth to be anything they want to do.” stated Gearheart who raised funding for her trip through fundraising activities of the Live Out Loud Charity and the Bill Rogers Youth Foundation (BRYF). Ms. Gearheart gives seminars to adults of all ages, teaching them the signs of suicide, and how to intervene to stop this preventable cause of death. For the youth, she teaches self-esteem courses and a Core Character Development program she created with the approval of doctors, social workers, principals, and students. View video interview with Sherrie Gearheart and Mr. Bill Rogers on Celebrate TV Talk Show at https://youtu.be/y4v-DFz8vPQ. Please note that the actual video interview starts at 56 minutes and 32 seconds.
After months of planning with the Bill Rogers Youth Foundation, Gearheart will spend time visiting Liberian orphanages, schools and churches. Honorable Jeremiah Sulunteh (Liberian Ambassador to the USA) and other Change Agent Network representatives will join Ms. Gearheart on her first visit to Liberia. Gearheart's itinerary includes speaking to students at the Len Millar High School and Cathedral High School. Gearheart will also meet with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, other high-ranking Government officials, and the United Nations officials (UN Women Organization). Numerous press interviews, radio talk show appearances and community outreach are planned. She will also tour Orphanages around Monrovia including the Antoinette Tubman Cheshire disabled home.
While in Liberia, Gearheart will be supported by Emmanuel Kpoto and Amos Reeves from the Bill Rogers Youth Foundation (BRYF), and Fombah Lasana Kanneh (Mandela Washington Youth Leader). Bill Rogers (Founder of BRYF) pledged to help young people and families in Liberia develop a pathway from poverty to opportunity with athletic achievement and development as the backdrop. "We do this primarily through our after school enrichment opportunities for our youth to grow socially, academically and athletically. The BRYF also provides clothing, food, medical care, water through our partnerships for our youth who all have so much potential."
About Sherrie Gearheart and Live Out Loud Charity (LOLC)
Sherrie Gearheart established Live Out Loud Charity (LOLC), a non-profit organization focused on suicide awareness, and prevention through core character development. She established this organization one year after losing her teenage childhood friend to suicide. Since 2010, LOLC has reached over 80 million individuals around the world educating people on the signs of suicide and how to stop this preventable cause of death. Gearheart is also the recipient of the 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award, the highest honor given by the We Live and Remember in Color Project by Quinton De’Alexander. As a TruthMedia Worldwide mentor, Miss Gearheart counsels teens/youth all over the world. Her favorite program is running the Leadership Academy & Worldwide Ambassador program which she founded in 2012 & 2014 where she mentors over seventy-five youth and adults that speak on behalf of Live Out Loud Charity across the nation and world. Her most recent endeavor is running the Celebrate Life talk show for Live Out Loud Charity and winning Miss United Nations 2015 in Jamaica the summer of 2015. Gearheart has taken her United Nations title across the USA and world. Also referred to as The Queen of Fashion, Sherrie Gearheart is an international runway and print model. During 2015, Gearheart walked in Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week, LA Fashion Week, Chicago Fashion Week, and completed an international World Supermodel Tour in China. Gearheart is also the Founder and President of Tiara Magazine (founded in 2009) a pageantry, fashion, beauty publication read in over 177 countries online and in print.
Visit www.liveoutloudcharity.org , www.tiaramag.net for more details.
About The Bill Rogers Youth Foundation (BRYF)
The mission of the Bill Rogers Youth Foundation (BRYF) is to help youth discover and develop their natural athletic talents to positively impact our world. The vision of the BRYF is a developed, unified, peaceful and prosperous society for all. The BRYF is in the business of helping young people and families develop a pathway from poverty to opportunity with athletic achievement and development as the backdrop. The big idea is to develop them to become useful and productive citizens of the world so that they become role-models and mentors to the next generation. We help young people discover hidden talents that they may have never known they had. BRYF strives to use these talents to change their own lives and the lives of others.
Visit www.billrogersyouthfoundation.org for more details.
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