Friends of Liberia

A Non Profit Organization dedicated to Liberia

 
4300 16th St. NW
Washington DC 20011
202 545-0139
Photographs from the Teacher Training  Liberia 1999

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When Joan Keenan returned to Owensgrove, she didn't expect to find her principal from Peace Corps days still in town. He was the first person she recognized on the road. 
Thanks to a little advanced publicity by Cuttington's Special projects Director, Theodore V.K. Brown, Dick's former Lofa students came to his guest house his first day in Monrovia; 
Beth's associates from 18 years in Liberia began walking when they heard her name on the radio and every day at Cuttington brought a reunion for her; 
Lucretia's family met her at the airport and Cuttington was her alma mater welcoming her home.
Joan Hamilton met a Cuttington professor who knew a song she had taught in his Lofa hometown 30 years before. 
All along the road, little pieces of paper with a U.S. teacher's name were thrust at the visiting teachers.
Joan Keenan and former principal
Beth and Dr. Mason meeting after MANY years
Nothing says rainy season like the ubiquitous laundry lines. LEAP teacher
trainers, from left, Ken Barbour, Joan Hamilton, Richard Stuempges, and Beth
Holtam plan lessons on the screened porch of their "dorm" house.
Ken Barbor Ken Barbor teaching
Dr. Richard Stuempges learned to make an abacus from bottle caps strung on wire and proceeded to have all his math students follow suit. He found it exciting to see how teachers were managing with so little material support.
Though he intended to teach methods of teaching math, he also realized that some of the teachers were learning the math concepts for the first time.

 
Dr. Ken Barbour, and Lucretia Goe, a Liberian teacher who now lives in Indiana, team taught language arts and reading. Their classroom was an example of a bright, lively learning environment

Cuttington site administrator Theodore Brown, right, poses with the
workshop "graduating" class outside the campus chapel. Teachers received
certificates, LEAP T-shirts and hats donated by Winthrop University, where
Dr. Frank Ardaiolo will supervise evaluation of the teachers workshop
journals.

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