Small-Small Liberia Literacy Project: Final Visits to the Libraries

Today we had the final visit to the libraries to deliver the rest of the supplies and to see if the librarian had any questions before we left. Each library has a sponsor school in the U.S. that donated most of their books. We visited Pamela Kay High School yesterday and they are temporarily using boxes of notebooks to hold the shelves up before they build more permanent shelves. Today we first visited Tegeste School and they were ready with their shelves. Then we moved to Saytumah and they were also ready. After that we went to see the new school that Liberia Now is helping to build. The foundation is laid and the walls are up. After that we went to Massaquoi village school and helped them organize their library. We visited their classroom and saw their community garden project. We traveled back to Bushrod Island and went to Mark S. Richards High School and Brefo School. Both of these schools are in the slums of the city. It is really humbling to see how such poverty exists in the world today at the same time that many people live in a world of wealth.