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Liberia is located in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, Cote d'Ivoire, and Sierra Leone. It covers an area slightly larger than Tennessee. Its climate is tropical, dry winters with hot days and cool nights and wet, hot, humid summers. The land is mostly flat with some rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateaus and low mountains in the northeast. Natural resources include iron ore, timber, gold, diamonds, and hydropower.

In the aftermath of the war, Liberia’s economy and social infrastructure have all but collapsed, and basic services such as water and electricity, telephone, etc., have yet to be restored. Approximately 85% of the physical infrastructure was completely destroyed, looted, or abandoned without maintenance for the entire period of the war. Every town and village, including the capital city was damaged by the war, and there is widespread need of shelter, water and sanitation, protection and health care. According to a U.N. study in 2000, 3/4s of the population lives on less than $1 a day. 90 % of the population is unemployed. An estimated 300,000 Liberians are displaced, many of them living in camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Among the list of problems suffered by these war-effected citizens are: post-war trauma, family separations; rape and sexual abuse of women and children, widespread medical problems including malaria, diarrhea and malnutrition. Another 200-300,000 Liberians are slowing returning the country after living as refugees in other West African countries.
An international donor conference in February of 2004 pledged more than $520 million to assist in rebuilding Liberia. The U.S. pledged $200 million of that total. Scores of local and international NGOs and religious organizations are working to assist displaced people, provide food, health care, and other basic services. At present, the country is almost completely dependent on foreign aid