A Non Profit Organization dedicated to Liberia

4300 16th St. NW
Washington DC 20011
202-545-0139

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.

2001 LEAP Program

2002 LEAP Assessment

2004 LEAP Program