27.11.2011 - Elections
Recently, Liberians had the opportunity to vote in their second Presidential elections since the end of the civil war. Although there were several smaller incidences of civil unrest throughout the country, the elections were largely peaceful, and it has now been officially announced that recent Nobe... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
27.11.2011 - Agriculture Program
Shortly after beginning the new school year, we also recommenced our agricultural program. Thanks to our agricultural teacher, Mr. Carper Garway, and the efforts of a group of local workers from the community of Duazon, we have been able to expand our program this year. Potato greens and watermelons... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
27.11.2011 - Art Project
For the past 3 weeks our current project manager, Pia Rieser, has been working on an art project with our students. Each class had 2 full days working in small groups to create a finished piece of art using water-based paint on plywood.
Art does not currently form part of the Liberian national cu... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
08.09.2011 - Nicola Sutton - New Project Assistant
I am very excited to have arrived and started working with LREC this week. I am an Australian by birth, but have been living in Switzerland for a year now. Having recently completed a Masters in International Development, and having spent some time volunteering in a school in Ghana earlier this year... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
01.08.2011 - Pia Rieser the new Project Manager
I have been teaching for 25 years as a secondary school teacher in Switzerland and I also have a lot of experience in working with students from the university who want to become school teachers .
Loving adventures and new challenges, I do some volunteer-jobs in other countries from time to t... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
18.02.2011 - Start of our Agricultural Program
Start of our Agricultural Program
We at “Our School Liberia” are more than happy to finally announce that we are starting our Agricultural Program.
To fulfill the National Liberian Curriculum we employed an agricultural trainer and prepared some land for the practic... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
01.06.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part XIII
Duazon, Wednesday, 01.06.2010
Congratulations to our NEWLY WED, Mr. Charles Luogon, 5th Grade and Science Teacher. All Staff were invited to the Ceremony and of course attended the wedding, even though the rain was pouring heavily. Only I could not attend, as I got my fir... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
28.05.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part XI
Duazon, Friday, 21.5.2010
Gifts for “Our School”. A big big thank you to the donors Dorothea & Wilhelm Fromm and to Tobais Ringli. Tobias not only not only was a donor but also the messenger for the following school materials and items:
- 105 pencils
- 70 rubb... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
28.05.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part XII
Duazon, Friday, 28.5.2010
Today was a very special day: No Students came to school this morning, but more than 50 parents gathered on the Campus for the big Parents Cleaning Day. In view of the Closing Day we all together cleaned up the area, whipped the grass, we laughed tog... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
25.05.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part X
Duazon, Tuesday, 25.5.10
Everyone at the school is busy now with preparations for the closing program. With beginning of this week, all students are practicing songs, poems, dances, etc… The Atmosphere all around the Campus is very laid back and relaxed. Only in my class ... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
21.05.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part IX
Duazon, Friday, 21.5.10
This very school year comes to an end. And along come the final exams throughout all grades and examine everything learned the 2nd semester. As a reward for the last day of exams, we had a sports day yesterday! And the children loved it! As it is “... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
04.05.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part VIII
Duazon, Tuesday, 4.5.2010
Finally I have THE solution! Ever since I started teaching here at “Our School” I had the problem that there always are children without a working pencil. A problem I didn´t have to face during my education in Switzerland, mostly because in Switzerla... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
16.04.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part VII
Duazon, Friday, April 16
I do have to admit, that the heat at the moment is almost unbearable. You really start to embrace any small breeze wherever it may come from. Even the children recognize it: every now and then they come to my classroom and ask for the temperature. This ... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
11.04.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part VI
Duazon, Sunday April 11
Wow, time´s flying. The Last two weeks though felt more like holidays than School :o). Firstly the Easter break, which Andy and I used for a trip to Buchanan, and then, due to the “National Fast and Prayer Day”, a long weekend, which we used to go to Kp... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
24.03.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part V
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Today the marking period for this semester started. It is this the second latest marking period for this year. In Liberia the School Year is divided up in six Periods. Each grade, starting in Kindergarten, is doing a test at the end in all subjects a... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
23.03.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part IV
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Everyone is busy right now! On Wednesday, March 31, 2010 there will be the big Easter Egg Hunt all over the Campus. Everyone will take part in that great adventure. It definitely is a big part in the Liberian School´s Schedule, so we are not going to m... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
05.03.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part III
Friday, March 5, 2010
Teaching 1st grade is fun oh! When I told this one of the School´s Securities he answered:"Kerstin, I am sure you´ll stay longer than this half a year!" At the moment the children learn to use the clock, to watch the weather and document it and to get to... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
23.02.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part II
Saturday, February 23, 2010
Yesterday was my first time in Duazon Town! Without Andy though, but he is sick at the moment and has to stay in bed. There was a traditional dance ceremony in town by Duazon´s Sectret Society and Lorento used the occasion to introduce me to the Town... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
17.02.2010 - Diary by Kerstin Fromm, Part I
Duazon, February 17, 2010
It´s been a month now, since the Adventure "Liberia“ started. Or as Andreas and I use to say:” Time flies” but on the other hand you experience so much, that sometimes you just have the feeling, that nothing is going on at all.
It was the Fri... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
20.01.2010 - Our New Well
We are very happy and grateful for our new well. In the last two years the school experienced during the rainy season (from November to June), and specially at the peak in march, water shortages and could not guarantee good drinking water at all times.
The new well was donated and build by "Wat... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
01.09.2009 - Parents Working Day
New Elected Parents Teacher Association motivates 38 Parents to voluntary working
The newly elected PTA - President was able to motivate more than 35 Parents to come to OUR SCHOOL and to help us with the preparations for the President's Visit on 11 September 2009.
They helped cleaning thepPlac... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
14.08.2009 - Community Outreach Workshop "Trauma and Traumaprevention"
Friday, 14th August 2009, a first community outreach workshop took place on the compound of OUR SCHOOL. We happy to announce that this is a beginning of a series of workshops and programs within our Community Outreach Program "We work Together".
The Workshop was held by the Internation... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
24.06.2009 - Certificates
End of the academic school year - certificates.
My first week here in Liberia was at the same time the last school week for the students. On Wednesday, 24th of June, in finally happened to be: LAST SCHOOLDAY.
Students and Teachers used this occasion for a celebration program. So the children did... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
05.01.2009 - Christin is looking back on 6 Month Liberia
My name is Christin Jendreczak and I am a student of Social Work in Hamburg. I completed my practical training at the LREC School in Dwazon, Liberia.
Amongst others I teached the subjects Reading and Social Studies of 1st and 3rd grade. I had also the possibility to teach Social Learning of 2nd an... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
09.05.2008 - Liberian president, stakeholders discuss global food crisis
(MONROVIA, May 7, 2008): President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has held the first in a series of consultative meetings with stakeholders, geared towards developing a national food policy. The meeting also sought to solicit feedback on the way forward, both in the short and long terms.
An Executive Man... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
09.03.2008 - President Ellen-Johnson Sirleaf visiting "Our School"
What a Day! Its not about how many people you know, but more, who do you know! So i can proudly say, I have met the President of Liberia Mrs Ellen-Johnson Sirleaf. It has been a pleasure, she said, visiting our School and seeing what work we have accomplished since the last time she came to visit us... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
21.02.2008 - George W. Bush in Liberia
Singing, sweeping, security and shouting have marked President Bush's brief visit to Liberia. The West African country, carved out for freed American slaves, is still struggling to recover from a drawn-out civil war and decades of poor governance and civil unrest. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from ... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
08.12.2007 - Santa, help us fill our first container!
Dear Santa Claus
Its time to make a change, here we come!
Since January 2007 we have been trying to build a school for children that have been left behind!
So what a coincidence, Xmas is just around the corner!!
Beginning next week we are trying to fill a container with school su... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
19.10.2007 - President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Washington
Washington, D.C. - USA - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has held talks in Washington with United States President George W. Bush. The meeting, which lasted more than half an hour, was held in the Oval Office of the White House. According to a dispatch from Presidential Press Secretary, C... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
07.10.2007 - Angela Merkel in Liberia
MONROVIA (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised Liberia four million euros (5.7 million dollars) to rebuild the country ravaged by civil war as she wrapped up her first sub-Saharan Africa trip on Sunday.
"We absolutely want to do it, to help Liberia back onto its feet," Merkel ... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
24.06.2007 - United Nations Mission in Liberia
The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) was established by Security Council resolution 1509 (2003) of 19 September 2003 to support the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the peace process; protect United Nations staff, facilities and civilians; support humanitarian and human rights ... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
07.06.2007 - Rainy Season
First experience with rainy season. Our road got completly cut off due to heavy rain falls.
The country has two seasons:the rainy and the dry season.
The raining season runs from May to October, and the dry season begins in November and ends in April. The location of the country, about 10 degre... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
20.04.2007 - Groundbreaking of "OUR SCHOOL" with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Newspaper "The Analyst": President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has participated in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Liberia Education Complex in Duazon, Margibi County.
Speaking on Friday at the occasion, the President lauded Sponsors of the proposed school for the effort, which s... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
02.03.2007 - Adolf Ogi visiting Monrovia
Adolf Ogi, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, leads a 3'000-metre run, with participants from all of Liberia's 15 counties, to mark the start of the "Sport for Peace" soccer tournament, that began with the lighting of an Olympic style torch, in Monrov... ...DETAILS |
| |  |
|
