Raindrops kept falling on their heads

Our hope for this coming project year is to build a new school and dormitory for Frances Gaskin Children’s Refuge Home. The current home crowds all 30 children (boys and girls together), as well as the parents, into three small rooms. The current school, made of mud brick and patched together zinc, holds over a hundred students. The students are packed together, several classes to one room. Circumstances that already make it hard to focus in class are magnified as rain, which is still common this time of year, often leaks through the zinc roof onto the heads and assignments of both students and teachers. 

Recently, a group of women rallied together to help the kids of Frances Gaskin. Kim Brennan and some of her friends, stationed in Monrovia with various organizations, held a fundraiser among fellow expats to raise money for the children. Kim has been teaching in the school two days a week and suffering the effects of the leaky roof and poor learning conditions first hand. With the money they raised, we were able to replace the existing roof with new zinc as a temporary fix to the problem. Kim and the other teachers immediately saw improvement in their students’ ability to focus in class, yet they all agree that much more is needed. 

We would like to offer a huge thank you to Kim, as well as Mounia Kolbinsky and Souha Zeidane, for the work they put into raising the money for this project. However, a new school building and dormitory are still greatly needed at Frances Gaskin, and we need your help. Please consider following the example of Kim and her friends by organizing a fundraiser yourself. You can click here to read more and catch the vision for this home. These kids need your help today.