The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is pleased to announce the Friends of Liberia (FOL) as the winner of the 2023 Loret Miller Ruppe Award for Outstanding Community Service. (Click on any highlighted area for links to more information.)
NPCA members selected FOL for this year’s prestigious award, recognizing the group’s publication of Never the Same Again: Life, Service, and Friendship in Liberia.
Chief editor, Susan Greisen, and co-editors, Susan Corbett and Karen E. Lange, collaborated with more than 100 people across seven time zones via Zoom, email, text, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and phone to realize their final publication in less than two years – all during the COVID pandemic. The proceeds from this powerful anthology benefit educational, social, health, economic, and humanitarian programs in Liberia. WATCH our 5-minute Friends of Liberia Ruppe project video to learn about these programs and why we won.
Here is Susan Greisen with his Excellency George S.W. Patten, Sr., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Liberia, in Wash. D.C. the summer of 2022 as they celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Peace Corps in Liberia. The annual Loret Miller Ruppe Award, named after the widely admired 10th director of the Peace Corps, is presented by NPCA to recognize the Third Goal accomplishments of RPCV Affiliate Groups and to share ideas and practices that other groups can emulate.
If you would like to support our humanitarian programs in Liberia, please consider buying this AWARD-WINNING ANTHOLOGY as a holiday gift. They can be purchased (shipped for 99 cents in the US) at https://fol.org/anthology/ or bought wherever fine books are sold including Amazon. eBooks are also available. For our international readers, Amazon in your country sells our anthology. Thank you all for your support.
I look forward to your reply/comments in the section below.
Susan E. Greisen 
Susan,
Congratulations on a mission so worthwhile..Indeed, this anthology not only shows the public the life and struggles of the Liberian people but the proceeds from the book benefits this country…a win-win situation on all fronts.
An awards well deserved.
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Hello Patty,
We have yet to meet, but we will. Thanks for your comments. This award met my initial goal as an editor…for the book to not just to be a Peace Corp memento for former volunteers but to actuallyl be a teaching tool for the broader community and the world to understand what it means to be a global citizen. We have achieved that goal and will for years to come. Spread the word.
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Susan,
Congratulations on another outstanding literary achievement! You have again demonstrated your extraordinary skillset for writing and organizing another great work about Liberia, its people, and those who step out of their comfort zone to serve and help others across international boundaries. Those of us who have served have a much broader perspective and worldview of where we as citizens fit.
Again, congratulations on a job well done!
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Hello Randy,
Thanks for reading and supporting FOL and all that we stand for. We have been so honored with this recognition, plus the cash winnings will go directly to the humanitarian programs in Liberia. FOL and our authors have truly demonstrated the meaning of the third goal of Peace Corps…we never stop serving.
Best to you and your family.
Susan
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