How can the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat build schools and clinics in Liberia despite civil war?

With patience and perseverance. Whatever is destroyed in the chaos of war is built again, wherever it is safe and an orderly government takes hold once more.

A civil war destroys more than houses. It also destroys schools where children learn and clinics where the sick are cared for. That is exactly why it matters to rebuild these places again and again.

In Liberia the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat built schools, clinics and mosques. In the chaos that followed, many of them were destroyed. They were rebuilt, and some were destroyed again. But the work did not stop. Rebuilding continues, step by step.

The approach is simple. Building takes place where it is safe and where a peaceful government is restoring order. As this peaceful area spreads across the country, the help goes with it. Under the protection of an orderly administration, new schools and new health centres can then be opened.

Behind this perseverance stands faith. The first verse above calls on people to vie with one another in good works wherever they are. The second shows how much a single saved life counts before God. A clinic that saves a child’s life is therefore worth every effort.

Anyone who wants to help must not be discouraged by setbacks. The third verse promises that ease follows hardship. With this trust, work begins anew after every destruction.