Monthly Archives: November 2024

Three Norwegian Guests to Visit HLF School Soon

Three citizens of Norway will be visiting Liberia this week, and they plan to visit Help Liberia Foundation Community School in Buchanan on December 2 to see and to spend some time with the students, the teachers, and the Board of the school.

Sissel and her girls (L-R): Hanne, Sissel, and Ida

The three visiting guests, all females, are Sissel and her two beautiful daughters, Ida and Hanne. Ida is the older daughter, while Hanne is the younger daughter, but they are all grown and independent women.

Sissel lived in Liberia as a child from 1970 – 1977, and this 2024 trip to Liberia is her first time returning since she left Liberia in 1977, that is, nearly 50 years ago. She’s coming to see the country she once lived in when her parents worked with LAMCO.

In Norway, Sissel works as a nurse, while Hanne is a veterinary nurse, and Ida works in the fisheries industry.

Their visit to the school in Buchanan, as indicated earlier, is set for Monday, December 2. We are excited over the news that Sissel and her two daughters will be visiting Liberia, and they have made visiting the school part of their plans. We are grateful and look forward to seeing them and interacting with them.

School Board Purchases Textbooks for School

The Board of Directors of Help Liberia Foundation Community School in Buchanan has purchased new sets of textbooks for the school.

The books are meant to be used by the teachers in impacting knowledge unto the children, since it is an unbearable financial burden for parents and their children to obtain all of the required textbooks. The teachers will use the books to come up with the appropriate lessons and notes for the kids.

The books purchased are the textbooks prescribed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Liberia to be used by kids in the elementary division.

There is a set of books for each grade in the elementary division of the school, meaning, grade one to grade sixth, and each set contains four books comprising
the four major subjects – English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.

In all, a total of twenty-four (24) textbooks were purchased, costing about US$88. The books were bought from under the old Education Ministry building on Broad Street in Monrovia.

We are grateful to our friends and sponsors in Sweden, through Lena Thorne Marner, for making us get funds to do the purchase.