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Our school in Buchanan, Help Liberia Foundation Community School, a school established to provide education to underprivileged kids, has held its seventh graduation program in the city.

The ceremony, which coincided with the 2011/2012 closing program and which was held on Sunday, 17 June 2012, at the Jubilee Christian Fellowship Center in Buchanan, brought together students, staff, parents, guardians and residents. The program was well attended.

Graduates seated in the hall

A total of twenty-three students graduated. Of the number, seventeen kids graduated from the kindergarten section, while six students graduated from the sixth grade. Those graduating from the sixth grade will be leaving the school, as our school is a primary school.

The Program’s activities included recitations, songs, speeches, and so forth. The top student or valedictorian of the sixth graders was Seke R. Morris, while the top student of the kindergarten section was Daniel T. Kennedy.

The top student, Seke Morris, delivering his valedictorian speech

Invited to speak as the guest speaker at the program was the President Pro tempore of the Liberian Senate, Senator Gbezohngar Milton Findley of Grand Bassa County. However, because of busy schedule, he sent a proxy, Mr. Reuben Barnie, who delivered the speech on his behalf.

Senator Findley, through Mr. Barnie, encouraged the students to take their education very seriously, as education is the key that opens doors and makes possible a better future.

Mr. Reuben Barnie (proxy Guest Speaker) delivering the keynote address on behalf of Senator Gbezohngar Findley

Senator Findley, through the proxy, promised to give scholarship to two of our best students – one boy and one girl. First, to Seke R. Morris, who graduated from the school and to Patricia Chea who was promoted to the fifth grade and will still be in the school.

Interestingly, too, because the school informed Senator Findley about its plan to begin the construction of a thirteen-classroom school building next year, the Senator pledged fifty (50) bags of cement to start the foundation.

Graduates, P-T.A. Chairman and some school staff after the progam

The new school year will start in September; however, registration of both old and new students will begin this month.

Our major priority at the moment is the construction of our school building, which we intend to start next year, as the building we are operating in is not conducive for our purpose. It is an unfinished residential building. We will be appreciative of any form of assistance any individual or institution renders us for the construction.

Pictures from the day (click to see larger images)

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated some backpacks to kids in our school.

The backpacks, fourteen in all and marked with the inscription “UNICEF,” were recently donated by UNICEF through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Liberia for onward distribution to a select group of kids.

Although the backpacks were not enough to cover all of the students, more than one hundred fifty (150) in number, the donation was appreciated in that Help Liberia Foundation Community School was one of few schools benefiting from the exercise. The fourteen items have since been given to fourteen students.

The administration of the school received the book bags and thanked UNICEF through the Ministry of Education for including the school in its backpack-donation exercise.

Our school will appreciate any form of donation made to it or to its kids. The donation could be backpacks, pens and pencils, copybooks, kindergarten materials, wall clocks, toys, used shoes and clothes and other items useful to the schools and its kids.

Our school has introduced the use of identification (ID) cards by the children attending it. The kids started using the ID cards recently.

Since its establishment six years ago, it is the first time that the kids have begun using identification cards, and it will, henceforth, be part of the their regular dress code.

The kids were not only happy to take their pictures for the ID cards, they were also excited to receive the finished product from the school. They happily and proudly displayed them on their uniforms daily.

We extend special thanks to all those who are assisting us to do what we are doing for the kids in our school.

World Food Program, WFP, has donated some dishes to our school in Buchanan, Help Liberia Foundation Community School.

The donated items include eating spoons, cooking spoons, plates, cups and a tub. The organization also gave some salt for the program.

The administration of the school expressed appreciation to the officials and staff of the World Food Program and appealed to them to continue assisting the school in its effort to provide hot meals for the kids.

It is important to point out that WFP usually donates food ration to us to enhance our school’s daily hot meal program. Although the food ration may not be much, it is regular – comes monthly. Food items given include burger wheat, beans, and vegetable oil, which are used to cook for the children daily, an arrangement that also helps to keep them in school, as most of them come from homes where only one meal is eaten per day.

Meanwhile, we are appealing to other individuals and institutions of good will to help us with funds or some other food items to augment our feeding program. We would like to buy fish and meat and prepare good soups for the kids. If possible, we would also like to start cooking rice for them.

The Government of the Republic of Liberia, through the Ministry of Education, has donated some educational materials/supplies to Help Liberia Foundation Community School, our school in Buchanan.

The materials comprise reams of sheets, teachers’ plan books, teachers’ roll books, chalk, pens, pencils, a calculator and other items.

The Registrar, Elwood Lincoln, receiving the items on behalf of the school, thanked the Ministry of Education for including our school among the schools receiving some form of assistance from the government, and promised the officials that the supplies will be used for their intended purpose.