Mid-Summer 2026

The Trustees receive regular updates from our excellent team in Liberia, reporting on progress, highlighting challenges and reaffirming the positive impact of the Fund in Liberia.

We have recently summarised some of this news at our recent Family Fun day and that can be downloaded HERE.

We are confident that your support, whether sponsorship, donations or attending our events, is changing young people’s lives in Liberia. In addition to the summary above, here are a few headlines and you can find more on our University section of the website.

Brewerville

This is the single school where up to 100 students are supported directly by our sponsor package.

School activity is as you would expect, with exams, field trips, management challenges as well as a continuing need to support the welfare of the community from where pupils are drawn. It is very clear that the school is run excellently and that there are ever-improving structures in place to develop the school, which bears the name of Sean Devereux.

As the term draws to an end, in addition to mpupils entered for the West Africa exams, a wide-ranging field trip to Kakata, a UN style debating/public-speaking opportunity and the further development of a school garden, ilustrate the diversity of school life.

Clearly schooling in Liberia is against a vastly different backcloth but your support continues to change the lives of young people.

Finally, in a very clear example of altuism and maturity, the school have a donation and friendship exchange with others less fortunate than themselves in the area. This has seen our school and the pupils exchange educational materials and gifts on a friendship exchange with children at Kpekor.

VOS (Sean Devereux Children’s Fund Liberia)

This part of our Liberian operation sees up to 100 young children academically supported but accross many schools in the Monrovia region.It is logistically challenging and our VOS team do a wonderful job in challenging circumstances. One of the volunteers is Harris and he is currently in the UK and gave an enlightening talk at our recent Family Fun Day;we hope to carry a full interview with Harris on the website shortly.

In addition to supporting the younger children, in recent months our colleagues have actively sought, via an outreach programme, to find youngsters where a disability prevents them from schooling. Such youngsters can easily be displayed in a relatively poor society and the work of our team has been exemplary. This is illustrated by examples of visually impaired children being supported into school and aided by specialist laptops and tablets that facilitate their education. We take this for granted in western society but without VOS support these youngsters would not be in school. The young man featured in the picture below has made remarkable academic progress in the last year.

It is also very important to know that, after leaving school, students continue their studies or find useful work in the country. Elsewhere on our website you will read of the 3 students supported by the Sean Devereux-Celia Reuter Bursary. However, another vital area we support is in vocational training for those leaving school. Our volunteers work very hard to support, mentor and facilitate those who can be guided in this direction and the image below shows some of the first intake at the Monrovia Vocational Technical Centre.

Tappita

Tappita is where ean’s heart lay and we continue to work with the Salesian community who are based in the area.

Unlike Brewerville and VOS, in Tappita we support a small number of children with scholarships here on an ad-hoc basis. Whilst we have done so for the last 2 years, the success of our events programmes determine our support.

In addition to the scholarships we also fund a feeding programme for up to 60 students of the school.

Finally, in this very distinctive area, with the guidance of the Salesian community we are actively supporting agricultural projects in Tappita. The logic of helping to purchase equipment, purchase crops and clear land to create fishponds is to support this community in self-sustainability and therefore the education of their children.

If you, or any community group/school, would like to know more about the work of SDCF in Liberia, please email us via this website.