Friends of Liberia
The Liberian Education Assistance Project- LEAP
The
Liberian Education Assistance Project revived the tradition of teacher
training in which many FOL members participated as Peace Corps volunteers.
For three years in the Friends of Liberia sent teacher trainers to
Liberia.
The trainers were returned former Peace Corps teachers that brought a
wealth of passion and enthusiam during the summers of 1999, 2000, and
2001. This team conducted the first successful primary teacher workshops
in the country in many years.
The summer of 2002 greeted the teacher trainers with a rebel incursion in the area where they had planned to teach. The program had to be called off that year. In November of 2002, two of the LEAP trainers, Stephanie Vickers, and Joan Hamilton returned to Liberia to evaluate the success of the program. They found dedicated teachers continuing to apply the knowledge they had learned in the workshops
The LEAP initiative has supported the creation of the LEAP ExtensionTeam (LET), a Liberian teacher-run NGO that will sustain the LEAP training concepts.
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2001 LEAP Program |
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2002 LEAP Assessment |
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2004 LEAP Program
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Design by Mike Waite 2007