We visited the team on Thursday in Cuttington, and they came here yesterday with Alice and Emma to visit the Development Education Center and see some of the DEN-L programs. They send you much love. They are all looking very well, full of enthusiasm and energy, and a joy to meet. It is so good for all of us here that they have come. Thank you for the wonderful 'Liberian Cookhouse Cooking' which will be treasured - and used! It is a beautiful gift. We were thrilled too with "How Big is a Foot?" with Emma's illustrations, and admired all the wonderful materials which the team are planning to use in the workshop.

Most of all we want to thank you for the US $ 2,500, which Dick (Stuempges) presented to Sugar Hill Community School on behalf of the Friends of Liberia. All of us - the Sugar Hill Community, the Pupils, the Parents, the School Staff and Board of Management send our thanks and deep appreciation to the Board of Trustees and the members of FOL for this very generous gift to the school. We will start the paint work almost immediately, as soon as the school vacation begins. Hopefully, when the LEAP team return next year, they will see how much their gift has done to develop and enhance the school.

But we want to thank FOL, not only for your financial support, but for all your ongoing concern and interest in the school and the community, which we value very highly, and especially for the training opportunities which LEAP is providing for our teachers. They, their colleagues, and the children they teach, are all benefiting greatly from the program, and we want to thank all of you whose generosity has made this possible.

This letter came  from the leaders of the Sugar Hill School, Gbarnga, which FOL has supported with two grants for school building projects.

The school is a true community effort, which began in an open market building during the war and later was built into a school building with mud bricks made by community members and students. The teachers later determined that the school was particularly well run, with a community advisory board, a PTA and an assortment of vocational programs for the older students. LEAP workshops use it as a model for teachers coming from other counties of a well-organized school.