HLF Community School Used As Voting Center

Our school in Buchanan City, Help Liberia Foundation Community School, was used as a voting center during the 10 October 2023 Liberian Elections.

Although our staffers were not involved in the process as National Elections Commission’s workers, our school was contacted since last year to allow the National Elections Commission (NEC) to use our building as a voting center for this year’s elections.

Interestingly, also, our school will still be used for the second-round election, which will take place next Tuesday, November 14, 2023.

The second round is between current President George Manneh Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and former Vice President Joseph Nyumah Boakai of the Unity Party (UP). The winner of the November 14 Election will be the next President of Liberia, and that person will be inaugurated in January of 2024.

In it all, we pray for a peaceful election!

We are pleased that our institution is meaningfully contributing to the conduct of the 2023 Elections by our consent to allow NEC to use our school as a voting center. It is an honor for us.

HLF School Gets Facelift

Before our school could re-open in September, we painted both the interiors and the exteriors of the main building and the annex that Help Liberia Foundation is operating in, so as to give the school a facelift.

It is a normal exercise that we carry out every year before the resumption of classes, and we were pleased to have done that this year before our kids could return and sit in their various classes for the new academic year.

HLF School Keeps Helping Poor Children in Liberia

Our school in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County, Help Liberia Foundation Community School, continues to provide education to children who come from boor background, where their parents are not financially capable of sending them to the many expensive schools operating in the country.

Kids in class

In September of this year, we re-opened our doors to the kids for the 2023/2024 academic year, which runs from September 2023 to July 2024.

Although some of our old teachers and students left the school for various reasons, we are pleased to have back our many old teachers and students, as we join hands with new teachers and new students to go through this new academic year. So, again, parents, teachers, and students are once more interacting.

Kindergarten kids in class

However, we are sad to report that the hard economic conditions most Liberians are going through at the moment has caused some parents not to send their children to school. Many parents are unemployed and, if they even have a job to do, it is just what is described as hand-to-mouth earning, which is not sufficient to take care of the family, including sending their kids to school.

We hope things will improve in the country so that parents can have employment opportunities to continuously send their kids to school.

Graders in class

We wish to use this time to thank all those who are still encouraging us to continue to help these kids to obtain their education through the effort applied by our school.

At the juncture, we wish to apologize for not posting any information/article about the closing program of the 2022/2023 school year in July. It was not intentional. We had a very serious problem with phone and photo taking on the day of the program. This will not be repeated.

Kids pledging allegiance to the flag before going to class

Meanwhile, anyone who has the desire to help the school through any means is encouraged to kindly contact Lena in Sweden.

Thanks to everyone for the start of a new academic year!

HLF Teachers with the Kids

Our school in Buchanan City, Help Liberia Foundation Community School, is blessed with committed teachers who care for and interact with the kids.

It is important for kids to learn in a conducive environment, and that conducive environment includes friendly, but professional, interaction with the students.

HLF School Opens for 2022/2023 Academic Year

Help Liberia Foundation Community School, a school established about seventeen years ago for the sole purpose of providing education to impoverished and disadvantaged children in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County, has reopened its doors for a new academic year.

The school, which reopened this month, is still receiving students whose parents come to register them. At present, there are seventy-three (73) students.

It is a known fact that many parents are unable to send their kids to school in Liberia as a result of the harsh economic situation. Many parents are either unemployed, poor, or low-income earners.

We are grateful to all of the people of goodwill, especially our Swedish sponsors headed by Lena Thorne Marner, who are helping the kids to get their education in Help Liberia Foundation Community School.