HELP LIBERIA FOUNDATION

The Need To Assist Help Liberia Foundation School

Posted by Help Liberia Foundation on March 24, 2007

We have helped schools, school kids, churches and individuals since we started our operations. It is a little over three years since the foundation was established. We started with helping schools and school kids with educational supplies, building materials and clothing.

HLF school kids happily displaying clothes distributed by the Foundation in 2005

the Foundation donating school supplies to kids of the Cephus Memorial School in 2005

Then through the continuous assistance of our few sponsors, we established our first and current primary school in 2005 - Help Liberia Foundation School System - a young and small school of about one hundred children.

Although we have suspended donation of materials and supplies to other schools for the time being, we continue to provide school supplies and clothing to the needy kids who go to our school. The kids who attend our school, along with their parents, greatly depend on the foundation for assistance, as the parents are either unemployed or poor. And the foundation is determined to give hope and a better future to these children.

A cross-section of HLF school kids pledging allegiance to the Liberian Flag during the morning devotion before lessons

HLF school kids taking test outdoors in 2006

Challenges and Plans
Although the school is established, owned and managed by the foundation, the building in which the school operates is not the foundation’s. We are leasing it for three years - the lease period started April 2006 and will expire in April 2009.

The staff of the school is doing its best in running the school and the children are coming, but there are numerous problems that have to be tackled, including the following:

1. We need food for all of the children on a daily basis.
2. We need clothes for children.
3. The school building needs renovation and the learning environment needs some improvement. For example,

a. the school building needs painting and fencing
b. the ceilings need repairs
c. the classrooms need more chairs and desks
d. a new toilet and a hand pump need to be constructed
e. books and other school supplies are needed
f. a reading room needs to be constructed

4. There are also plans for the purchase of a piece of land for the construction of real school building, as we cannot continue to operate in the current building; it was not built for the operation of a school.

HLF school kids taking test outdoors in 2006

HLF school kids having lesson outdoors in 2007

In order to have a good environment where the kids will feel happy to learn, as well as sustain the school, we are appealing to all individuals and institutions of good will to assist the foundation in anyway possible - in terms of service, materials or funds.

We encourage you to help us not only because your help will make a big difference in the existence of the school, but also because it will help to give hope to these underprivileged children by giving them education.

If you are moved by what we are doing and you would like to help, we encourage you to do so. For more information, you may contact us by using our contact form on the website, our E-mail address or by using our mailing address. We look forward to receiving your help.

Note: Sometimes there are problems with the on-line contact form; so we would like to encourage you to send the same information via our E-mail address.