Service Beyond Self
Join us in our mission to provide quality primary education to children living in orphanages and rural communities in Liberia.
Writing for a Good Cause (Teacher Jeanette)
The Liberia Literary Society is a nonprofit educational initiative led by Teacher Jeanette, aiming to implement the “No Child Left Behind” initiative by creating a platform that provides all children living in orphanages and rural communities with access to quality education. The Liberia Literary Society aims to ensure that all children in these communities can succeed by removing barriers to equitable education, as education transforms lives.
We began in 2020 with 50 students (Pre-K) at two orphanages: Peter Sayklon Orphanage in Kakata, Margibi County, and Children’s Rescue Center in Mount Barclay, Montserrado County. Two locations were added in 2023, Borlorla Town in Sanoyea, Bong County, and we partnered with the Care Outreach Initiative organization in Gbarnga, Bong County, to serve those children who have no access to school.
Today, in 2025, we have 150 students (Pre-K through first grade), six teachers, one teacher trainer, and two administrative staff working at the four locations.
Your donations (of any amount) support Backpacks & School Supplies, the publication and printing of updated curriculum books and workbooks, administrative and teaching staff salaries, teaching supplies, and teacher training.
Help Educate Children in Need. In every child, there is a bright future. We must nurture and build their current capacities to fully prepare them for the future. We remain committed to helping all children living in orphanages and rural communities with no access to quality primary education in Liberia meet their basic educational needs. Thank you so much for your gift, may God bless you with His richest blessings!
Visit the No Child Left Behind website for updates on our work, particularly regarding student growth.
Literacy Development: Children’s books play a crucial role in developing reading skills, vocabulary, and language comprehension.
Empathy and Social Skills: Many children’s books address important social and emotional themes, helping children understand different perspectives and develop empathy.
Worldview and Understanding: They expose children to diverse cultures, perspectives, and experiences, broadening their understanding of the world.
Personal Connection: Reading a book, especially with a caregiver, can create a unique and personal bond, fostering a love of learning.
Ophelia Lewis
We provide books, backpacks, and school supplies for 200 students at two orphanages and two rural communities.
Sayklon Orphanage
We develop and publish updated academic books that students can relate to culturally.
Borlorla Town
We provide books, backpacks, and school supplies for 200 students at two orphanages and two rural communities.
Children Rescue Center
Preparing students with a solid educational foundation that will make a difference in the lives of these children as they prepare for their educational journey.
Care Outreach Initiative
We provide teacher training workshops and provide updated resources & teaching supplies.
Help Educate Children in Need
In every child, there is a bright future. We must nurture and build their current capacities to have them fully prepared for that future. We remain committed to helping all children living in orphanages and rural communities with no access to school, meet the basic needs of quality primary education in Liberia.
And as we continue our mission, we invite you to join our current GoFundMe endeavor to help build a school in Borlorla Town. Every donation brings us closer to our goal of ensuring every child has access to education. Here’s the link to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/b56eedd7
This initiative is in honor of the matriarch of the Lewis family, Jeanette B. Lewis, who dedicated her entire life to caring for children; always surrounded by children, she lovingly taught and mothered them. As a teacher to preschool and kindergarteners, her classrooms were more like being part of a big family than a classroom; no one got bullied, and everyone felt like they belonged.
Experienced in both loving and mothering, Teacher Jeanette, as she was always called, had eyes and a voice that were soft, yet she possessed the right blend of assertiveness and confidence to keep her class in order. She never took advantage of her students by belittling them or exerting authority. She taught with the passion of a lifelong teacher, someone who lived to inspire a love of learning in all who sat under her voice. She treated her students as if she’d known them her whole life. And, she never used a cane.
Some teachers are just there for the paycheck. They arrive in class as if they’ve come to wage war on the students. Then there’s the cane that brings fear to every student while the teacher strides from desk to desk in quiet moments. When you put that much negative energy into the classroom, where do you expect that to go? Children aren’t naturally mean, but bullying them and placing stress on them changes them.
With TJNCLB, children come first, so we ensure that hard work will be the priority to meet and surpass the high standard educational goals set for all students. A good education is the greatest gift you can give a child; it can be a golden ticket to the future of everyone in society, a chance to better oneself, to learn and grow.
We become people who thrive when our education is responsive to inborn curiosity and drive and respectful of how each brain needs to develop. A lack of love and nurture damages our children’s brains. A flawed educational system perpetuates further damage by producing teachers who are also affected. Our goal as guardians of the next generation is to provide students with the best possible environment, enabling them to develop into better individuals than we did, fully equipped to become successful and socially complex citizens of the world.