Harper – At World’s End

Nowhere is the post-Apocalyptic atmosphere of Harper, in southern Liberia, felt more than in ex-President William Tubman's burnt-out presidential residence. Once a striking mansion sat on top of the hill overlooking the sweeping lush green cape, it now stands as a shadowy, derelict wreck. Destroyed by frenzied rebels in the civil war and left to...

Harper – The Forgotten City

On Africa's western shores, where huge Atlantic breakers roll onto Liberia's jungle-covered beaches, Harper sits like a forgotten city in the Deep-South of the country. Its previous splendour now faded away into the landscape, it's as if the Apocalypse has been and gone, and tenacious human life has returned to live in the ruins of...

Work Down South – Community Visits and Education Assessments

In our second week in Harper, in the isolated South East of Liberia, we began the school’s baseline assessments, testing twenty-four children from every school to compare their performance and tailor future teacher training sessions. While students in Street Child schools in other counties had scored around 40% on average in a series of maths...

Work in South Eastern Liberia – Thunderclaps and a brand new school

The isolated city of Harper, in Maryland County, is located way down in the South East of Liberia, on the border with the Ivory Coast. In fact, to get there from the capital Monrovia, it takes two ten hour days of driving, pitching and rolling along severely rutted dirt tracks through the jungle interior, with...