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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Help Liberia Foundation Community School, our school in Buchanan City, celebrated its Gala Anniversary recently, with scores of activities taking place on the campus and outside the campus.

The school was established in 2005, and the celebration marked its 17th Gala Anniversary. It was a week-long celebration, but the two main days were Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, the school played two games with the Sarah Samson George Public School in Buchanan. Our football team beat their football team 4 goals to 1, while our girls beat their girls’ kickball team 22 points to 4.

Then on Friday, the school had a country cook and a concert of music, with staff, parents and students having fun with various dance strokes.

Many thanks to all of our friends who continue to help us to operate the school, especially our Swedish friends, headed by Lena Thorne Marner and her husband, Anders Marner.