Monthly Archives: September 2024

Can you help us pay our teachers?

Due to the economic hardship being experienced by many children and their parents in Liberia at present, many parents have not been able to register their children for the new school year.

Many, many kids have not started school because of the situation, and they may not even go to school this year, if nothing is done to change the situation around. If parents are unable to pay registration fees for their kids, how will they be able to pay the yearly tuition that many schools are charging?

Even for Help Liberia Foundation School, which charges a small fee for registration, the parents of the kids who attend the school are also still unable to register their kids, which is a serious problem facing many parents this year.

It is our hope that individuals and institutions of good will see the need to help these underprivileged kids to get their education.

For us at HLF School, a school that is established to help as many poor kids as possible to go to school, we will be able to take in many of these kids if we are able to get assistance from sponsors willing to help with the payment of teachers’ salaries. We need about $200 (two hundred United States Dollars) per month for teachers’ salaries.

We would appreciate any assistance from any individual or group in this direction, as we all try to help poor kids in Buchanan City go to school and have a better future.

The pictures show registration in progress.

HLF School Kids Help with Pre-opening Clean-up Exercise

Some kids of Help Liberia Foundation Community School came on campus to help carry out some clean-up exercise before the resumption of classes in the new school year.

They helped sweep the premises, including the classrooms and around the main school building and the annex built for the kindergarten division, as they expressed their willingness and readiness to start taking lessons.

The kids also helped with dusting the benches, cleaning the floors, and cleaning and re-organizing the Principal’s Office. In short, they helped give the school a facelift.

Meanwhile, a lot of children have not registered due to financial difficulties faced by most parents, which difficulties are a result of unemployment, very low income, etc.

HLF School is established to help educate poor children, but the school has to pay the teachers who teach there. And getting funds to pay the teachers is the main problem facing the school, as we need about US$200 (Two Hundred United States Dollars) per month to be able to pay teachers monthly.

If we could get ten (10) sponsors willing to help with at least $20 each per month for support for teachers’ salaries, or if we could get twenty (20) sponsors with each paying $10 per month toward teachers’ salaries, the problem would be solved and the school would be able to take in more and more children from poor background.

Things are quite difficult in Liberia; hence, if nothing is done to help poor children go to school, many poor children will continue to be illiterate in the society.

HLF School to Re-open Soon

Help Liberia Foundation Community School will this month reopen its doors to students, teachers, and parents for the new school year, that is, the 2024/2025 school year.

Although the school was unable to officially close in July, it will officially open this month, September. The school was unable to have an official or formal closing program as we do every year because of the uncontrollably heavy down pour of rain on the day set for the closing program.

It rained and rained so heavily that parents, teachers, and community residents found it very difficult to leave their homes. Therefore, there could be no formal program, characterized by various activities and photo-taking.

We sincerely apologize to everyone for our inability to have posted anything earlier about not having a closing program for the 2023/2024 school year.

Also, plans are being put in place for there to be regular articles concerning happenings, events, and activities at the school, beginning this month.

Meanwhile, there will be a teachers’ workshop next week to carry out some rehearsal training for the teachers before the opening of school.

Profound thanks and appreciation to everyone for starting and ending the 2023/2024 school year with us. We look forward to a more fulfilling 2024/2025 school year.

The photos are from the last school year.