Higher Vision

Tow years rigorous pre-primary educational study for vulnerable, and out-going school children in Liberia. After their study, we source funding to support the best student in school.

 Higher Vision work with a diverse group of committed, and dedicated students who are passionate about child education. We work as a team to identify children who are not going to school and are either selling or working during school hours on the street. Take their information and their parent’s contact as part of the recruitment process.  Reach their parents to explain to them the importance of education, and how it is relevant to their children’s future. We do this as an encouragement for them to send their children to our study classes. 

In our program prototype, we conduct study classes, and life skills training programs for our students to build stronger reading, and writing skills, improve their mathematical and science base skills which help prepare them for the real academic world.

Building a Future for Children: Solving the Problem of Child Illiteracy in the Front Street Community in Liberia. A significant issue in my community is child illiteracy. The increase in child illiteracy in Liberian society has been detrimental to children. The terrible results of the civil war are reflected in the current state of the nation. Due to low-paying jobs, and extreme poverty, many parents cannot afford the education of their children. Given these circumstances, most of the young children living in my community are out of school. As a result of this predicament, most youths are blind to the fact that their rights have been violated, and they are more prone to gambling, prostitution, and joining street gangs.

We help the most vulnerable children whose parents cannot afford to sponsor their education in primary, and secondary school. We offer study classes that are helping to improve and advance life for them by building their writing, reading, life, and communication skills. Most of the children in our study program are becoming more intelligent because of the academic opportunity that they have been exposed to from our mathematics, science studies, and life skill training. 

Since our inception, the project has been flourishing. In my community, we now have many children who are more literate, and who are more enthusiastic about education. Other children who previously were not interested in the class are becoming more interested in joining the program. For instance, Abraham Swaray is one of our brightest students who recently came from a tiny village, Jong-Gee Camp. He could not read and write, but as we engaged with him, we realized that he is very smart. After some time, Abraham can now read and write, and he often teaches other students.

Our long-term goal is to be able to help these children get an education by selecting the most diligent, and brightest students from our study classes, and sponsoring their education in primary, and secondary school in Liberia. The education will help prepare them to respond to community, and national problems more analytically after their study.

To run our program smoothly, we intend to partner with local primary, and secondary schools which will make our student enrolment easier.

I am a direct victim of the issue; due to my parents’ financial constraints, they could not afford to sponsor my education. In 2011, my mom who is a street cook got ill from excessive fire exposure and was taken to the hospital. To pay her hospital bills, I had to stop going to school and start polishing shoes in Monrovia, which was humiliating. As a result of not going to school, I used to feel less important than my peers as I did not know how to read and write. Additionally, I could not participate in civic engagement programs and youth-led activities like my peers. Opportunities such as joining the Liberian children’s parliament and interacting with some of Liberia’s prominent politicians and investors were also not available for me. These memories have greatly shaped my passion for education as I felt insecure about missing out on life-enhancing educational and extracurricular opportunities. 

This problem is obvious when you see children selling or working at home during school hours. We have investigated the problem and interviewed most of the victims, and they all said they like education. According to Index Mundi, 159,479.00 children do not have access to primary education due to high economic constraints as of 2017. 

Building on these experiences, I am more passionate to help prevent other children from going through What I have experienced. Putting myself in their shoes, to help provide a solution that is human canter-designed.

Since 2019, Higher Vision has started its study classes for 25 outgoing school kids in the front street community. We help improve their writing, reading, mathematic, and science base understanding and emotional intelligence skills through life skills training. 

We raise 160.00$ in 2019 through a GoFundMe campaign to help buy educational materials for the children. We distributed pencils, pens, supplementary, compositions, and as well as reading books. These school materials help engage them at home with relevant activities that are helping to promote their emotional, and mental well-being. Increase their reading, and writing potential, as well as critical thinking skills.

December 15, 2021, Higher Vision also secure a mini-grant of 245.00$ from the peace First organization to support our children with more educational materials and stimulating learning activities. And an electronic writing board for children below the age of 7 which has maximized greater benefit, and derived happiness for our kid. Children’s book “Strategies for the writer” has been helping our kids a lot, and will we need more of them for our children which will encourage us to recruit more people.

The Higher Vision project relies solely on the use of computers, social networks, and the internet of things to achieve its learning objective. We plan to use these technologies to make learning effective, and easier for our children. These technologies will help expose our children to real-world issues, improve their intelligence, interaction, and the use of the internet to source out life-changing opportunities for themselves. 

We currently have 45 children in our study program, and we want to work with these children to make sure they are well quip and have the potential required to be sponsored in school. We hope to select some of the brightest students and help sponsor them for primary, and secondary education. Out of these 45 children, we intend to choose the best fifteen (15)  students and send them to our partner primary, and secondary school beginning next academic year in Liberia.

 Higher Vision intends to support and enroll 15 of its best students in local primary schools in Liberia for the next academic year in 2023.

We hope to achieve this through writing to secure funds, seeking local business people, and philanthropists assistance in Liberia to help support the education of the selected children.

We will measure the progress of our impart by monitoring, and evaluating the performance of our students in both our study classes and as well as in the grade school once a month.

 Our KPIs are evidenced by the weekly testing that students take from our study classes. We will also use the semesters or quarterly examinations from our partner institutions that are meant to track the overall performance of students.

Our evaluation of students' grades, class participation, and commitment during study hours are some of our key metrics that can determine and measure our impact goals.

Our barriers to success have been the lack of seed funding to lunch our project. Since the inception of our program, we have been able to secure a total of 405.00$ which was only meant to buy educational materials for the children in the study classes.

The project has no barriers to market entry, so securing this fund will help us lunch our project, select the best students from our study classes and sponsor their education in primary school, which will help prepare a better future for the children.

In my experience as chairman and executive director of National Youths against Environmental Pollution and child Illiteracy, I have gained project management and its maintenance skills.  I have created ideas about how to undertake projects through effective teamwork. I have also planned programs to maintain the stability and prosperity of the organization. 

Through my experiences, I have gotten to respect the views of my peers working with them to resolve problems in our community. Besides that, my participation in community service has increased my motivation and aspirations for communal and national developmental issues. It has also given me the opportunity to exhibit true leadership spirit and passion for contributing to my community, Liberia, and Africa.

 I am working with a diverse group of university students who believe what I believe and for why we serve. While serving as executive director of National youths against environmental pollution, and child illiteracy, These team members have been working for a cause and the reason why they do it.  Since 2019 we have been working together as a team. They all have the experience of working with children and have been volunteering with local organizations that have helped expand their understanding of civic engagement programs. Throughout these volunteering activities in our community, They have become much more vigilant about social responsibility and its benefits to our environment. We have also learned the importance of commitment, perseverance, and endurance in volunteerism. Providing services for the benefit of others requires patience and strong efforts. All in all, We have learned, that one cannot achieve triumph overnight,  but rather being committed and resilient will help us achieve our quest for a more prosperous world. 

As a new start-up organization, we do not have any partnership at this moment since our organization has not been lunch yet. But hopefully, we will partner with other NGOs and schools that will help support our cause as soon as we lunch our project.

We plan to partner with Hort-paper newspaper incorporated- This company will help publish, and highlight the talents of our students in the newspaper which will serve as a call to action, and attract potential supporters and donors.

We also plan to partner with Frontpage Africa Liberia- A leading online magazine, and daily news publisher based in Liberia. It will help circulate and disseminate information about Higher Vision's contribution across Liberia, and will also showcase, and market our student talents for sponsorship.