Our Goal
Our goal is to build a community center, that will showcase the richness of Liberia’s history and cultural values/heritage. The community center will also be used as a place to cater to our senior citizens; youth and young adults with various activities including after school assistance. The center will be a place where cultural exchange and learning can take place on a one-to-one level.
Our Mission
Partner with other charitable and nonprofit organizations to provide community services at centers and institutions identified by the organization. The mission will also focus on the educational advancement of the youth, assistance to the elderly and facilitate interaction among Liberians and other nationals. The organization will also seek to provide charitable services to the Triangle area through support of local and international nonprofit organizations.
Our Values
We will conduct educational, informational, and cultural activities to increase public awareness about the socio-economic interest and benefit of the community. We will promote greater interactions among Liberians in the Triangle Area and other parts of the United States as well as between Liberians and Friends of Liberia
Our History
The Liberian community of the Triangle of Durham, Orange and Wake counties and surrounding areas, North Carolina, is home to upward of 10,000 Liberians. Approximately 60% of Liberians residing in the Triangle resettled in the area during the fourteen-year civil war (1989 – 2003) upon immigrating to the United States or relocated from another state. 40% are naturalized Americans. Given the growing number of Liberians in the area, an organization was formed to govern and represent its population. Liberian Community Organization of the Triangle (LCOT) was established with a mission to increase public awareness of Liberians in the Triangle (Durham, Orange and Wake counties and surrounding areas), and through charitable means address the educational, economic, and social needs of Liberians and friends of Liberia in the area and at home. The organization will galvanize its members, seek their interest, create a bond of unity and peaceful co-existence with our neighbors, while instilling discipline and respect for rule of law in our members, including their children.
The Liberian Associations of the Triangle – LCOT is a not-for-profit organization 501(C)3), based in the Raleigh-Durham area and registered in the State of North Carolina. LCOT not only seeks the welfare of its members but tries to make it presence felt in the greater community of the Triangle. And collaborates with other organizations in the area.