Education Liberia Project #3644

Educate Repatriated Refugee Children in Liberia

by Vision Awake Africa for Development

Educate Repatriated Refugee Children in Liberia

Project Report | Mar 18, 2016
Preparing future of the next generation

By VAAFD TEAM | VAAFD TEAm

It’s been an interesting and an exciting movement as the4th period draws near at Carolyn A Miller High School, with sporting, quizzing and senior students’ preparation for the West Africa examination. Our students have tried to test their skills and talents as well as their academic performance by inviting others institutions to engage in them in series of activities.

Since the strike of the Ebola Epidemic came to an end, the students and staff of CAMHS have been gradually recovering from the post traumatic event that led thousands of people dead. Our students have finally put the fear of Ebola at their back but remain vigilant and maintaining all the basic rules set by the ministry of Health and social welfare that which include the washing of hands and etc! CAMHS students have organized sporting activities, including quizzing with other schools in the Paynesville area.

Last Friday the students at CAMHS defeated Paynesville Central Academic in both quizzing and soccer. It was an interesting event to watch our students worked very hard to defeat PCA which is one of the leading high schools in the Paynesville belt. The quizzing was very challenging but our students proved to the audience that big name could not win them on their own school ground.

The audiences saw both teams battling neck to neck for a final win especially were PCA wanted to continue to defend their championship and CAMHS wanted to make history. However, CAMHS defeated PCA with 10 points to take the day that which brought the race to an end.

After few hours, the kick off of the sporting activities which was comprised of football and kickball, the kickball game was first played since it is always played by females. PCA’s students took the day by defeating our students with 6 points differ. The football game proved difference result the students of ‘CAMHS play a fantastic football and the game was very beautiful, the first half ended without goal; after the both teams had missed so many scoring opportunities, CAMHS made used of one brilliant ball that gave them their winning goal in the first 15 minutes and that created a wonderful atmosphere and beautiful on the field.

The grade students are now getting prepares for the WAEC exams, and students have been busy revising all of what they have done at school for the past three years. They have been working very hard studying to be able to get better grade or make a pass in the exam. Luckily for them, one of our alumina from Ghana who is now in the teacher training college (KLTTI) is spending most of his time to provide tutorial. There had been some challenges to overcome especially when it comes to educational materials, Liberia as a nation students do not have the opportunity other students have in other countries. Our students are really struggling to meet up with these challenges but it is hope and desire that we will overcome this situation.

Our school textbooks project has been very slow to achieve our goal but not withstanding, we continue to work, seek and get some basic educational materials supply to our students to able them do their assignments and other school work. It has actually been challenging but we continue to work and provide materials free for Liberia's poorest students. We again have a very challenge that is facing the school, seating capacity is now a major problem for the school the chairs and desks we purchased couple of years most of them are damaged and need there a need for replacement to enable our students to better seat to sit.

Thanks to all the efforts of our donors and fundraisers over the last couple of years especially during the Ebola crisis. When Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone suffered during the heat of that deadly virus that took the lives of over 4800 Liberian, you really shared our pains. We highly appreciate all of the efforts you continue to make and as present. Matching day is almost at hand at globalgiving and we thinking this could be a great opportunity for our students to some of their need since all donations can be matched by globalgiving.
Thanks to everyone who has supported VAAFD so far, you are helping create opportunities for Liberia's poorest youth and young people and we cannot be successful without your contribution and support.

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http://www.vaafd.com

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Dec 17, 2015
Education is a powerful tool

By VAAFD TEAM | Executive Director

It has been a very wonderful and an interesting school year for students, staff of the Carolyn A. Miller School as well as our team after the Ebola epidemic. The team worked very hard to restore the damaged building to have our kids back in school

There were a lot of difficulties and challenges that came on our way that affected our students, staff, and team before the beginning of the academic school year. There was this fear of Ebola, our damaged school building got damaged completely by storm, many other challenges from staff and even our land lord! However, with the efforts of our donor’s, supports and globalgiving, we gained hope and we have been able to solve some of those challenges.

There were so many needs for our students to able them get back to school and it was really challenging and at the result of that, the enrollment of the school was not stable there were always fluctuation, rise and fall in the attendance of the students on a daily basis. However, it took months and great number of time and effort from our team and staff to be able to get encourage of our students to be regular in school.

We also realized that most of the students that were affected were the younger once especially the females. Most of them came to school very hungry at the result they will be sleeping and not paying attention to the lesson taught by the teachers. We have been unable to provide feeding for them since donations to our project has been very slow and we have not been able to meet up with our target set.

Interestingly all of the students that come to our school are less fortunate kids in society. One of students called Mercy life has been very challenging for her since she was born. Mercy was born in one of the counties in Liberia called Nimba County in a little village. Her family later moved to Monrovia to seek a better opportunity in 2010 unfortunately her, their father died when she was at a very young age in a motor accident in April 2011 leaving behind Mercy and her five siblings.

Since the death her father there has been so much suffering, constrained poverty and hardship and this has leads the family to disintegration, suffering as well as denial to fundamental opportunities to education, healthcare and more.

Mercy is now 10 years of age and she lives with her aunty who is also unemployed and do not have the mean to provide for her education and other needs. According to mercy, she lives in very harsh conditions that depriving her rights as a child. (United Nations convention on Child right, Article 25. E and f) declares and gives every child the right to ensure that all segments of society, in particular parents and children, are informed, have access to education and are supported in the use of basic knowledge of child health to develop preventive health care, guidance for parents and family planning education and services.

At five years old, Mercy was taken by her Aunty, Kumasa to assist in education but funds and job have ked to great poverty that threatens Mercy’s education. Mercy dropped out of schools many times and that there seem was no hope to join other children gain education. She was discovered by the registrar, she has been involved with street selling and there where the registrar met her and after interaction wills her, she was able to go with her to her home to meet with the Aunty to arrange her enrollment at the Carolyn A. Miller School. Mercy has been the bread winner for family she continues her selling after school in order to be able to get food for the family. She is a 4^th grade and making a lot of effort but it is just difficult and challenging for her life as a young child. Mercy says that she wants to be a medical doctor and when she grows up to be able to help her community and Liberia.

We are grateful to our donors and Globalgiving that through their support Mercy and others can be able to get the educational benefit today. We want to continue to encourage you to please help us to continue your supports and donations so that many others kids will be supported like Mercy to meet their educational dream. We can never continue this project without your supports and donations therefore we ask that you please continue your help us to help these less fortunate in our community. It is our hope that one day you will make a decision to visit these kids to be able to interact with them directly to bale to understand their trauma that many of them are undergoing. You are really making a difference and together as a team we can do more.

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Aug 26, 2015
The closer of schools

By VAAFD TEAM | Executive Director

Since the invisible enemy Ebola attacked our nation Liberia and the two others Minor River countries, it has imposed a lot of challenges to all sectors of the three countries Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. But Liberia brings the second poorest country in the world suffered the most because of the fragile health system, the Ebola nearly killed closed to 5000 persons in the country. The situation of this nation remains very much critical when it comes to education; over 80% percent of the entire population is illiterate. The Ebola epidemic has created a lot of setback to the educational system and affected our students as well. However, we continue to work and create the necessary opportunity help kids we serve. With the limited resources, we continue to provide the best to all of our students to acquire quality education. During the Ebola fight in Liberia, our organization played a major role in providing the awareness to communities to our students. Through a joint efforts from International organization and the ministry of health, we are the country is finally free from the Ebola.

The Ebola epidemic had gone but a great set back to the students and the educational sector of Liberia. Schools got re-open in March and finally closed in July that which was a short time to operate school and students promoted to the next class. That wasn’t really an enough time to build capacity of students who have been sitting home for almost a year due to this Ebola epidemic. The minister of Education took a decision that all schools shut down and re-open in September to start as fresh but this statement was misunderstood by both parents and got the house of parliament involved. And they proposed that for that short period students should be promoted to the class accepts grade 9^th and 12^th base on that promotion has to take place.

We want to use this opportunity to thank all of supporters and donors for their generosity; we appreciate your kindness without you there will be no free education for the forgotten children of Liberia.

We have a week and couple days for school to reopen and our land lord rent has increased from $2700.00 to $3,000.00 imposing a kind of difficulties to us, we want ask for your continual support to this project our students got 7 pieces of computer tablets from Map Your World and these computer tablets will be used to undertake a project please help us support it.

Again, many thanks to you all who are supporting and we also want to thank Globalgiving for their support as well.

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