Liberia (outside Monrovia)
School/Clinic/Ministry Center Campus
Serve the Children
EMI Project 5428
9 - 22 June 2007
DEC 26, 2007 UPDATE
EMI traveled to Liberia in June 2007. As the civil engineers surveyed the 2-acre site and sampled the water quality, our architect spent time with Sackie Kwalalon about his vision for a school and community clinic in this village outside of Monrovia.
The final design includes a master plan to guide the development of the property through the next decade, including a school, clinic, administrative offices, multipurpose hall, and on-site teacher and student residences. The team also prepared detailed construction drawings for the Phase I facilities: the school, admin offices, and clinic. The ministry is currently in the process of raising funds to start construction.
Update Photos
Sackie & Ma Mary, the ministry head and principal of the new school
Bob and Robbie surveying the site
Students look on as Hannah samples the water
The EMI team
Perspective drawing of the EMI-designed school
Original Photos and Documents
Lunchtime for the school children
Classroom
Site pic 1
Site pic 2
Site pic 3
Original Project Scope
Founded in 1997 in and through Liberia’s war years, Serve the Children has begun works in India and Indonesia, but has seen their largest ministry effort grow in Liberia. They are currently serving over 1000 children. “Small Boy Units,” or SBU’s, are the child soldiers of Liberia. Serve the children was started in 1997 to provide the only free Christian education and counseling to SBU’s in the country. They soon expanded their efforts to include war orphans and other children who were too poor to pay for school. Four schools stayed open throughout the war years, except when they were forced to close or were destroyed by the fighting and looting. Two schools have reopened since the last of the fighting in 2003 and there are currently over 100 SBU’s in those schools.
With a vision to improve the future of war-scarred children in Liberia, Serve the Children seeks to expand with this new project to continue to meet their educational, emotional, and physical needs in a biblically-based environment. There is not one other school, church, or clinic in this area. The UN estimates that over 80% of the population is impoverished, over 35% is chronically malnourished and nearly 80% are illiterate. Roughly 4 out of 5 schools were damaged or destroyed during the war, and most Liberians are too poor to pay for existing school costs (USAID, 6/8/2004).
Will you come and join our team serving in a place where half the population is under 14 years old? Serve the Children needs your help to provide a tuition free education to children who otherwise would have none – to a country that has no hope for a future unless we take hold of a vision to help educate its children. You can be a part of designing a world of hope!
Project Team
Scott Powell - Team Leader, Civil Engineer
Phillip Grosser - EMI Intern, Structural Engineer
Dirk Anderson - Architect
Robert Cook - Civil Engineer
Karen Yim - Electrical Engineer
Steve Yim - Electrician
Hannah Wong - Civil Engineer
Bob Goodrich - Structural Engineer
Students from the Serve The Children school
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