Liberia is endowed with abundence of natural resources including timber, gold, diamond, iron ore, water and valuable plant and animal species;some of which are endemic. The presence of these resources attracts local and foreign direct investments in Liberia for exploration and investments.

Even though all of these resources have been harvested and exported especially by multinational cooperations over the past century,Liberia a country of approximately 3.3 million (three million three hundred thousand) people, still ranks high amongst the poorest countries of the world lackig all of the basic social services suitable for survival. A vast majority of its citizens lived on less that 1 (one) US Dollar daily while the illetracy rate is approximated at 65%.

Most critics blame the under development of Liberia on systemic corruption, the unsustainable harvesting and management of the resources, the lack of transparency and accountibility, the unequal distribution of wealth, and persistent cooperate social irresponsibilities shown by most multinational cooperations.

To contribute to the solution of these problems, The Save My Future (SAMFU) Foundation organized in 1987 with the mission to facilitate and promote sustainable community -based natural and human resources management and development embacked on achieving its goals and objectives and has made significant impacts. Reorganized in 1998 after the civil crisis SAMFU launched an independent forest monitoring campaign in the timber industry in 2000 in collaboration with its international partners for the purpose of investigating and reporting the high wave of unstainable logging activities that was carried on by the Oriental Timber Company and other multinational cooperations, the industry's contribution to the exacebation of the civil crisise and its associated human rights abuses in rural communities.

This investigation led to the publication entitled: Plunder:The silent Destruction of Liberia's Rainforest in 2002 which pointed an international sportlight and sparked a major debate about the contribution of timber indudtry to the prolongation of the Liberia crisis at the time. This investigation assisted the United Nations Security Council and other stakeholders to make informed decisions about the industry including the moratorium on the exportation of Liberian timber in 2003 and the call for total reform in the sector which is nearing completion now.

SAMFU also runs biodiversity conservation projects and other programs in fulfillment of its objectives including Peace building, Community Development and Marine Turtle Conservation.