Discovering the YMCA Liberia

My second day of fact finding about the YMCA took me on three visits. The first was to the Paynesville YMCA Community school. Offering formal education to some 457 children and young people. Jacob Sandolo, Principle of the school beams with pride we he told me the school was intended to take 350 pupils but due to the quality of the education and levels of attainment,the school population has grown to 457 pupils.

The education attainments are achieved through 16 Teachers working in 12 Classrooms.

We moved on to visit two placements under a EU and Comic Relief funded programme. This programme is entitled the'Supporting youth livihood Project' The first was to visit a 'one student' placement in electronics;

There have been 579 completers on this programme with 55% of completers being in work or self employed when a follow up survey was carried out. Moving on then to a placement in motor mechanics and here two students are on placement.

truely inspirational work. In my next post I hope to share a motor bike project with former young combatants from the Civil war which only ended in 2003.