4/17/14 - A fundraising effort is underway to send a group of local contractors to the African country of Liberia to construct a new school and clinic. After graduating from Fowlerville High School in 2005, teacher Sara VanderVelde has traveled the world to teach in places ranging from Farmington to Eastern China. Her latest position was in the village of Gbanga, not far from the Libarian capital city, Monrovia. The demand for education there was much greater than she originally thought, so she and her father, Pastor Dan VanderVelde of Fowlerville, created a plan to construct a four-room school in the village that could also function as a clinic. They created the Arise Liberia campaign to raise funds locally that would pay for travel expenses and materials for local contractors to visit the village and build the school. The village is within 45 minutes of a university, but children from the village must get a quality education if they hope to attend and compete with children from the city. Right now, Dan VanderVelde is trying to raise the first $1,000 to supply Liberian workers with bricks to build the foundation of the school. A total of $30,000 is being sought by Arise Liberia for the expenses and materials associated with the school. Local contractors will be visiting the village to construct the school sometime in the last month or so of 2014. To find out more, search for âARISEliberiaâ on Facebook, or to donate, click on the link below. (TD)
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