In Monrovia, the capital city, drug addicted men, women and young people have taken over the Palm Grove Cemetery and the Center Street Ghetto at its edge. There are hundreds of tombs in this cemetery, almost 13 acres of them. Fourteen years of death-by-machete civil war left no shortage of bodies to bury in Liberia. Some of the older drug addicts are the former child soldiers and victims of abuse from this bloody and brutal war, who became addicted to drugs and had nowhere to go when the war was over. The warlords kidnapped the young boys and often killed their family members in front of them before making them go off to the war. In order to get the frightened children to fight, the warlords gave them drugs to make them brave and they became addicted. They gave them Marijuana, Crack Cocaine, Black Tar Heroin and fed them a mixture of Alcohol, Cane Juice and Gunpowder that got them high and supposedly made them unafraid. The warlords even made the children cannibalize their victims. Once the disarmament came, the government took away the guns and machetes, but the addiction and trauma stayed. The brutal civil wars, seeded drug addiction in Liberia!

Today, there is an entire population that consists of several generations and people of all ages, addicted to drugs and living in the cemeteries and ghettos across the country in the most horrible conditions imaginable. There are babies being born into this environment that never have a chance at a decent life and the infant mortality rate is high. This devastated people group is named Zogos. They have been forgotten by the rest of their society and persecuted, even unto death. There are very few resources to help the Zogos. These hurt, broken, lost and addicted people, need our help. Praise the Lord! God has given this ministry, a burden and a massive mission, to help the Drug Addicted, Poor, Homeless and Disadvantaged People of Liberia! We are here to show them that Jesus has not forgotten them, and neither have we. Sons & daughters of Thunder – Liberation Center Liberia is also involved in prison ministry, community and ghetto outreach. Our ministry team regularly visits and provides support to the people called Zogos who live in the prisons, smoke houses, ghettos and graveyards scattered throughout this West African country.