A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

1. Background to the TRC
2. Designation The TRC Designates Minnesota Advocates as the representative institution to
represent the interest of the TRC in working and coordinating with Liberians and Liberian
community organizations in the implementation of the TRC programs in the USA, beginning
in the State of Minnesota.
3. Contractual Rights This Memorandum is not intended to create contractual rights in any
party, with the sole exception of the mutual releases and indemnities set forth herein, which are
contractual. This Memorandum simply documents the mutual understandings and intentions
of the parties so that a consistent approach to the issues and challenges of this project are
adopted as it proceeds.
4. Scope of Minnesota Advocates Work Minnesota Advocates is responsible for the overall
supervision and direction of the programmatic, administrative and operational implementation
of the project; will work with the National Advisory Committee and Local/State or
Community Advisory Committees, in the overall design and implementation of the project;
recruit volunteer and other staff as and when necessary; solicit funding, whether jointly or
separately with the TRC for the implementation of the project or other TRC programs; and
work with local Liberian community organizations, groups, professionals and individuals to
ensure the maximum feasible participation of Liberians in the project.
Minnesota Advocates is dependent for its funding and operations on donations and volunteers.
Its ability to perform in this matter is dependent on, among other things, the scale of the
operation and the amount of donated and volunteer resources that prove to be available.
5. The Project Subject of this memorandum, the Project involves sensitization, education,
mobilization and participation of Liberians in the work of the TRC, in the following areas of
the USA, namely New England, Minnesota, Staten Island & New York, DC and Maryland,
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