HELP LIBERIA FOUNDATION

HLF Students Meet Liberian President

Posted by Help Liberia Foundation on May 03, 2008

Help Liberia Foundation Community School were among a few schools selected by the Buchanan Branch of the Ministry of Education to welcome President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to Buchanan City a few weeks ago.

During the President’s interaction with the schools, she specially recognized the kids of Help Liberia Foundation Community School, a recognition that even caused her to walk to, pick up and talk with Anita Hoto, one of the kids of our school.

Anita, the kid held by President Sirleaf

HLF kids displaying poster during the President’s visit, as three staff members watch; behind them are students of a different school

Many people opined that the President’s interest in the school that day was a result of the school’s characteristic uniform whose colors – red, white and blue – are identical with the colors of the Liberian Flag.

Although the staff and the kids had to stand during the program, they did not feel it. They stood with joy and went home with joy. They were joyful not because they had eaten a lot of food or had received some grant to construct a new school building, but because the President of the Republic of Liberia, the first elected female president in Africa, had recognized their school and interacted with them in a special way.

The news of the President’s interaction with our school – a school that has been in existence for only three years – spread like wildfire in the City of Buchanan. Staff, students and parents felt proud. But who wouldn’t be thrilled by such an event? The sad part was that our cameraman was not fast enough to have taken some snaps of the President holding the kid.

Kids of HLF School standing in front of the newly renovated Administrative Building in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County

Some kids displaying poster; Anita (the little one on the left)was held by the President