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(HAW) SCHOOL TO SCHOOL CONNECTION
                    FORMER RPCVs NEEDED TO HELP VILLAGES
By Sharon (Mosher) Tangney

Recalling how beautiful and happy the children of Liberia seemed in 1969 when I served in Klay, Liberia as a Peace Corps volunteer, I was struck by how much the devastation of years of civil war had impacted the children of Liberia.  My work as a member of a Maternal and Child-Health Education program in Liberia (’69 – ’71) and counseling work in schools today, inspired me to initiate some action that might help bring back the smiles and sense of peace to these children born into war. 
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By Jim Gray 

(Editor's Note:  Jim and Lyn Gray are longtime organizers of Friends of  Liberia.  Currently they are working in Liberia. Lyn is working for the YMCA for Peter Kamei, one of her former students. Jim is teaching at Cuttington University College, which has reopened in Suakoko.)

On Sunday, August 1st, Lyn and I drove about Monrovia taking pictures. Sunday is a good day for this since there are fewer people around, and therefore less hassles. We are mainly taking pictures of buildings or signs that strike our fancy such as Sharks Business Center or F.F. Provision's Chilly Pissy. Young children, in contrast to adults, seem eager to be photographed. In fact, if we start to photo two or three especially cute children, another five or ten materialize and impose themselves into the setting before we can snap the shutter.   [READ MORE>>>>]