About Voice of Cape Mount

Voice of Cape Mount was born from a reality that can no longer be denied or softened. We exist because silence has been weaponized against our people.

VOC is a non-profit organization founded in direct response to the investigations conducted by credible sources, including the Gecko Project and the Associated Press, uncovering the egregious crimes communities in Grand Cape Mount County have lived through for years; a pattern of sustained environmental destruction – poisoned waterways, human suffering, and human rights violations, tied to the operations of Bea Mountain Mining Corporation, Liberia’s largest Gold mining company. What has occurred is not negligence, nor oversight, but rather systemic extraction of land, of dignity, and of life, executed with impunity.

This organization exists to give structure, formidability, and permanence to the voices of those voiceless sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, and elders.

For generations, the people of Grand Cape Mount have depended on their land and rivers for survival, identity and continuity. Today, those rivers and waterways, are now vectors of contamination, tainted by cyanide, arsenic, and mercury linked to mining operations. Villagers report illnesses consistent with these toxic exposure. Livestock have died. Crops and local food systems have collapsed. Families have been left to navigate a slow, invisible violence with no recourse. What was once a source of life has become a source of harm and destruction.

The human toll extends beyond environmental degradation. When residents sought to assert their rights and demand accountability for unfulfilled commitments, they were met with bullets. Three young men lost their lives, one of them, shot directly in the head, while many others were wounded. These were individuals advocating for basic provisions that had been promised, contractual obligations: schools, hospitals, jobs, and community infrastructures, capable of sustaining a future. Their demands were humanly reasonable, instead the response they received was fatal.

At the same time, entire communities have been displaced, stripped of viable livelihoods. Ancestral lands have been overtaken, rendered uninhabitable. Young people face limited economic opportunity despite the wealth extracted from their surroundings by Bea Mountain, ranging $2.5 to $3B annually. Labor violations and unsafe working conditions have led to injuries and deaths, that have gone unaddressed, undocumented, and deliberately obscured. Economic displacement has become normalized, while youth unemployment remains rampant.

The environmental consequences reach even further, affecting fragile ecosystems and threatening endangered species, such as elephants and chimpanzees, within the region’s forests. What is being lost is not only measurable in economic terms, but in ecological and cultural permanence.