Back to the Future 2021

Dear Friends of Hope,

While school life here in the States has been beginning, adjusting, and pivoting, in-person school at Hope International began for this year’s senior class last Tuesday, October 19th. Pictured are some of the 2022 seniors, whose school uniforms will be arriving soon. The rest of the students will be returning in November. 

There will be condensed instruction and a longer year and our Liberian friends will find a way to make it all work. Over our 13 years together they have modeled what resiliency and adaptability look like when life swerves.   

Wishing the students and staff of Hope International a year of health and learning. 

Celebrating this Breakthrough!

Dear Friends of Hope,

With all the happenings at Hope International in the last couple of weeks, the recent amazing news of a malaria vaccine slipped through without the celebration merited. 

Each year 260,000 children die from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2019, 800,000 children have participated in a pilot program in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi and a game-changing malaria vaccine has been approved. This vaccine will have an immensely positive impact on children's health.
  
At Hope International’s medical clinic, we provide medication for malaria where 7 students were treated just last month. 

“This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. You can read more about the vaccine here.  

Please join us in celebrating this breakthrough and the benefits it brings to Liberia and all of the world. 

Good Things Come in Three

Dear Friends of Hope,

Please meet Albert, Siryee, and Michael, the first group of Legacy Students at Hope International. These three young men who are preparing for graduation were part of Hope International’s first kindergarten class when the doors first opened in 2008. 

They remind us of the enduring partnership we have all created together. Day after day, year after year, they had the opportunity to pursue an education and a dream for their future because of your generosity, their hard work, and the teachers’ dedication. After graduation, Albert wants to study communications, Siryee plans to study engineering, and Michael wants to become an entrepreneur. 

Each and every student that we have supported with post high school education has been made possible through your generosity. Individuals, like you, have stepped into the lives of some of our graduates and walked alongside them in their pursuit of a college degree. If you are interested in learning more about scholarship needs for our graduates, please reach out to Jackie at jackiefrazier@hopeproject.org.   

Thank you for your partnership over the years that has made it all possible. 

Congratulations Albert, Siryee, and Michael. Honoring you three and all the students at Hope International today, on World Student Day, and every day. We look forward with you towards your bright futures.