On behalf of the Board, the teachers, and the kids of Help Liberia Foundation Community School, we wish you all Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!
We pray for God’s unmerited blessings, including His protection, upon us all in the New Year! It is our hope that 2026 will be more fulfilling than 2025.
We wish to use this medium and this time to inform all, especially those who are connected with the school one way or another, that all the decisions made just before the reopening of school in October, except one, have been reversed.
As you will recall, based on our decision to ensure sustainability in the operation of the school, we made the following changes this year:
We have reversed all these decisions, except number 4. We reversed the first three decisions because we later realized that we took those decisions, especially #2, without considering the fundamental reason why the school was established and, that is, to help give education to poor children whose parents cannot afford to send them to the many expensive schools in Liberia. We forgot about that very important reason why the school came into existence in the first place.
Unfortunately, when we changed the school’s name and increased the tuition and fees, our parents who could not already afford the little registration fee we had been charging them for years decided not to send their kids to the school. They decided to either keep their children at home or send them to some other family members somewhere else to live. Our decisions are depriving these poor children a great opportunity, that is, to assist them get their education through a school that was primarily established to help them go to school.
In fact, because of our decisions to increase tuition and fees, school enrollment dropped drastically this year – only less than twenty students were able to register this year. In a sense, we failed the poor kids who depend on our school to have a form of primary education.
And it hurts us to see this happen. We have seen that our decision is negatively affecting these poor kids. In a sense, we are disappointing these poor children and their parents, and we do not want it so.
More besides, in relation to the change of name, the school already has a plot of land with a deed bearing the name Help Liberia Foundation Community School. We also have a bank account with the name, Help Liberia Foundation Community School. The school is recognized by the government with the same name. in short, changing the name involves some legal complications, and we are not willing to go through those.
Therefore, we are making the following reversal decisions:
The new motto, “Preparing Liberia’s future today,” will be the only change that will remain.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, we wish to apologize to all those whom our decisions to change the school’s original name and charge high tuition and fees have hurt or disappointed. We are very deeply sorry! And we thank you for your patience and your understanding.
Please help us to continue to provide education to the children of the poor parents and guardians in these Liberian communities. We believe that every child, no matter how poor they or their parents may be, do deserve an education that gives them a better future. Help us achieve this goal.
We will be changing the school’s name back to Help Liberia Foundation Community School on our website, Facebook page etc., but this work may take some time to complete.
Our school toilet is quite complete, and both students and staff have begun using it, a quite great relief and achievement for the school.
We were able to raise some money locally to buy some planks to fix door frames and two temporary doors for the two compartments. We also bought some tissue, as well as buckets to be used as containers for water.
Our school has already opened, and it is a great feeling to start the 2025/2026 school year with a new and better toilet for the kids. It’s a major achievement.
We wish to use this medium and time to finally and sincerely thank the six (6) individuals and one (1) institution that helped us with funds to fix the toilet, namely, Mary Smith, Isabelle Eriksson Mozo, Anna Dobrowolska, Catherine Walker, Catherine Jamieson, Lena Thorne Marner, and Pepperadventure.com.
The first six photos show the new toilet, bucket and tissue, and the final two show the old toilet. You can see how much things have improved for our students and staff!
Our beloved donors and sponsors, we are quite pleased to further report that the fixing of an inside toilet for the kids and the staff at our school in Buchanan, Future Leaders Academy, has advanced significantly and satisfactorily. We can now safely say that it is almost finished, except for a few finishing torches whose costs we forgot to include in the original estimate.
It’s worth mentioning that all major pipes have been installed in their appropriate places and positions. Also, the bio-digester septic tank has been fixed, with the necessary chemicals placed in it and sealed. The bio-digester septic tank is a new kind of technology relating to septic tank fixing, where a smaller tank is fixed with some special kinds of chemicals to prevent the tank from getting filled quickly and from polluting the environment with terrible odor.
Most importantly, the two commodes have been installed, and they were tested to see if they would flush, and each did flush easily and satisfactorily.
Once, again, our sincere gratitude to all the individuals and institutions that donated funds for the toilet project. We remain extremely grateful to you all.
Note: One major problem we have just realized is that we forgot to include in the estimate is some finishing-torch costs. For example, we forget to include the purchase and installation of a doors, as well as locks, to the two-room toilet, as they cannot be left opened while people use us. This is a dilemma we are facing right now! Besides the doors and locks, we also need to paint the interior of the toilet. And the total cost is estimated at $97, which we need to raise to complete the project.
Once, again, we wish to report that the fixing of the inside toilet for our school in Buchanan City, Future Leaders Academy, is making tremendous progress.
The administration of the school is glad and proud that the school will soon have a better toilet for the students and the staff, as well as parents and others who may visit the school. We are super happy!
So far, the necessary cuts and chiseling have been done in the building, several pipes have been appropriately installed, the bio-digester septic tank has been dug beside the school building, the appropriate fittings for the bio-digester have been fixed, blocks have been laid for the septic tank, and so forth.
Indeed, great progress is being made on the fixing of the school toilet, and we are super happy about it!
Once, again, our heart-felt thanks and appreciation to all those individuals and institutions whose good-will contributions or donations have made this possible.
View some photos below….
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