About FahnCares

MISSION/PURPOSE
Our mission at Fahn Cares is to empower students in underdeveloped areas, with a particular focus on Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia. We aim to improve their educational, economic, and social well-being by providing essential aid and support.

We believe that education is the key to breaking down barriers and challenges. We aim to inspire a generation of fearless learners who will redefine education in a modernized environment. Through our efforts, we strive to create a brighter future for these students and the communities they represent by providing humanitarian, financial, and moral support to village schools, educators, and student empowerment.

VISION
"Empowering Youth for Educational, Economic, and Social Success."

WHO WE ARE
FahnCares is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization with a philanthropy focus. FahnCares focuses on community outreach and educational endeavors for the youths in Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia.

COMPLETED PROJECTS
1. Library renovation.
2. Laboratory renovation.
3. Building Renovation (classrooms, bathrooms, windows, & staff offices).
4. Scholarships.
5. 18 boxes of books/textbook donations.

CURRENT INITIATIVES/LONG-TERM PROJECTS (Ranked by Priority)
1. To provide laboratory equipment and furniture to Gbesseh High School in Cape Mount.
2. To financially assist 10 volunteer teachers and 8 government teachers with an allowance/stipend.
3. Establish a school clinic to provide health services to students.
4. Build a technology center/computer lab for students to utilize during and after school.
5. Build an activity center that would foster extracurricular activities and a healthier lifestyle.
6. Build a cafeteria that will serve lunches to students during the school year.
7. Salaries for full-time staff members.
8. Provide solar panels, generators, and electric batteries to the school building.
9. Improve the potable water system for Gbesseh High School in Grand Cape Mount.

COST ESTIMATE
1. Laboratory equipment and furniture - TBD
2. Financial assistance for 10 volunteer teachers and 8 government teachers - $375 USD (BSc Degree), $225 USD (AA Degree), $200 USD (“B” Certificate), $175 (“C” Certificate)
3. School Clinic - TBD
4. Technology Center/Computer Lab - TBD
5. Activity Center - TBD
6. Cafeteria - TBD
7. Salaries for full-time staff members - $375 USD (BSc Degree), $225 USD (AA Degree), $200 USD (“B” Certificate), $175 (“C” Certificate)
8. Solar panels, generators, and electric batteries - $20,000
9. Potable water system - TBD

SCHOOL PROFILE
Name: Gbesseh Elementary, Junior, & Senior High School
Location: Gbesseh Town, Tewor District, Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia
Year Built: May 26, 1956, 1974 (Junior High School status granted), 2008 (Senior High School status granted)
Grades: Pre-K through 6th Grade (Elementary), 7th through 9th Grade (Junior High School), 10th through 12th Grade (Senior High School)
School Population: 570 (Girls - 342, Boys - 228) in 2016/2017, 270 (Elementary - 120, Junior - 95, Senior - 55) in 2017/2018, 644 (Girls - 304, Boys - 340; Elementary - 493, Junior - 101, Senior - 34) in 2018/2019
Senior High School Graduation Class Size: 6 (2021)
Principal: Emmanuel B. Fahnbulleh (2021)
History: The citizens of Gbesseh, having realized that education is the key to success and the bare rock for nation building, and leaving their children and the unborn uneducated would create a vacuum where poverty and underdevelopment will be the order of the day; while their children remain useless to their community, their county, and Liberia at large.
It was against these backgrounds the people of Gbesseh took the initiative to open a school in a Palava hut on May 26, 1956, as a self-help project - erecting a school on the very site where the school is now located. As the school developed, it was turned over to the national government for further support.

The school gained its junior high school status in 1974 through the instrumentality of Hon. Uranus B. Freeman, former Senator of Grand Cape Mount County.

At the end of the 14 years civil conflict in Liberia, the people of Ghesseh and some concerned citizens of Lower Tewor advocated for a senior high school through Action Aid Youth Program (YES) where two annexes were built to elevate the school to high school status. At the completion of the two annexes in 2008, the community again imported some teachers from Sierra Leone on the experience of the community and started with the first tenth grade class. Since then, the school has had two graduations while the third is pending.

Projects with Completion Date:
- Construction of 40 benches for the elementary school (1/16/2018, Cost - $500),
- Repairing of 50 armchairs (1/20/2019, Cost - $200),
- Volunteer teacher/school administration monetary donation, textbook/encyclopedia donation, and 2 office tables (5/30/2019),
- Donation of 18 cartons of textbooks (11/2/2020, Cost - $250),
- Rehabilitation of the Science Laboratory (11/14/2020, Cost - $2,500),
- High School graduation monetary donation (2/26/2021, Cost - $375),
- Library renovation (7/15/2022, Cost - $3,457)