The Liberian Association of Pennsylvania (LAP) was established in 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to promote unity, create economic opportunities, and seek social justice for Liberians here in the State of Pennsylvania and back in Liberia.
Our Mission
the Liberian Association of Pennsylvania (LAP) has varies committees to make running of the organization a little easy. The Audit Committee is an autonomous body within the organization responsible for checking on the administration to ensure that resources given to the administration by the Liberian people are used for it intended purpose. The Audit Committee also ensures that financial workshops are conducted periodically to help members understand their own financial conditions and make wise decisions on spending their hard earned resources.
The ensure free, fair and transparent elections every two years, LAP’s Constitution lapconst empowers the president, with consent from Members of the Board of Directors to appoint member of the Elections Commission. The Elections Commission shall conduct all elections in the association. It shall consist of five members including a Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary. No two members of the commission shall hail from the same county in Liberia.
Membership to the association shall be open to all Liberians and their
descendants residing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A Liberian shall be a person who satisfies the citizenship criteria as laid down in the 1986 Liberian Constitution. A Liberian descendant shall be a person who holds citizenship of another country but at least one of whose parents is a Liberian or a native of Liberia. Membership shall also be open to all others residing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who subscribe to the general principles of the association as laid down in this constitution. Honorary membership shall be granted to non-Liberians or group of non-Liberians who contribute meaningfully towards the development of the association. Membership dues is $5.00 monthly. For more information, please read lapconst.
We, the citizens of Liberia residing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States of American, expressing our gratitude to God for our existence; realizing the structural changes to our community association since its formation in 1978 which necessitated the 1984 constitution of the Liberian Association of the Delaware Valley, Inc; cognizant of the need to clearly define the geographic limit of our community; determined to further our collective growth and development; to foster harmony, unity and togetherness in our community; to secure services for the benefit of all; to create greater awareness of the Liberian culture; to promote friendship among our host, do hereby ordain and establish this Constitution for the Liberian Association of Pennsylvania, Inc.
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