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About Reffell School
The Reffell Primary School was established in 1940 to help the less fortunate children and whose parents could not afford expensive school fees. The school started with twenty-seven boys and girls from age seven to twelve. By 1942, there were over one hundred pupils grades 1 to grade 7. By 1952, the number of students had increased to over three hundred.
The cumulative effect of wars, currency devaluation and other instabilities in the region led to reduced school activities and other budgetary constrains. The school meanwhile is struggling with added responsibility of counseling children who have been traumatized by wars, and or, made orphaned by the same. Most of our sponsors flee the country to seek tranquillity in foreign lands. Because of looting and other ill behavior of lawlessness during armed conflict, the school is in desperate need of furniture, equipment, pencils and papers and other basic supplies necessary to run an educational institution effectively.
We are therefore seeking your kind and sympathetic consideration of our appeal for both monetary and hardware assistance. The management of the school will make themselves available to provide further information on your request.
Projects and Contacts:
Building Project Fund
Pearl Reffell.
Reffell French Memorial School
Tower Hill, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Tel: 011-232-222-227176
E-mail:
Reffell School
Scholarship Fund:
Ms. Conteh
Washuku Foundation, WFHA
Rochester, New York 14603
Tel: 716-235-8570/ Fax: 716-271-8367
E-mail:
WFHA
Student Computer Center Fund
Massala Reffell
R&R Information Systems
P. O. Box 690151, Houston, TX 77070
Tel: 281-955-2621, Cell: 832-452-6527, Fax 281-469-0555
E-mail:
R&R Information Systems
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Red Cross Girls and boy scouts supporting those orphaned by wars.
Chief J. T. Reffell and his wife Phebean Menneh Victoria Reffell founded Reffell School in 1940, for poor and inner city children who are economically disadvantaged. During the war that started in Liberia in 1990, the school accepted over 100 students who went to Freetown as refugees from Liberia. A good percentage of these students were made orphans by the war.
Illiteracy is an impediment to any nation’s development. The illiterate mass has a strange illusion that most problems can be easily settled through wars and carnage. Remember that your contribution can help transform the nations of Mano River States from 85% illiteracy to 85% literacy, and reduce the probability of wars and destruction by more than 70%. Literacy is a right, not a privilege. The efforts of J. T. Reffell to combat illiteracy live on through the efforts of his daughters, who are holding on to the philosophy that education is a key to happiness and prosperity of a nation.
Think of the many who perished from senseless wars that engulfed the Mano River basin. Think of the thousand of children who were made invalids by the amputations of hands and feet. Educate a child today, and prevent a reoccurrence of such senseless tragedies tomorrow. Together, we can prove that knowledge is more profitable than guns and bombs.
For educational excellence, support the ideals of Reffell French Memorial School, where learning could be better than silver and gold
One can make financial contribution and, or donate tools and equipment.
Student Activities Fund:
Athletics, School Choir, Dramatic Group, Computer Club etc.
Daisy Gilpin
Daisril Security:
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Tel: 011-232-222-72605/27874
E-mail:
Daisril Security
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Devoted teachers before the military storm that engulfed the Mano River Basin.
Reffell School System and Reffell Education Foundation Collaborative Objectives
1. Provide early interest in science and technology
2. Organize training workshops in computer literacy for teachers
3. Organize training workshop for effective teaching and cognitive skills development
4. Work in partnership US organization already involved with similar programs in bridging the gap between inner city kids and suburban students.
5. Organize seminars to familiarize teachers and support staff with recent global development and global trends in information technology
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Unquestioned devotion to teaching after a military storm
6. Have teachers access up-to-date information through the WEB
7. Familiarize teachers with distant learning software packages
8. Produce career education packages for teachers and support staff
9. Maintain local preferences of cultural values while exploiting incentives of global sponsors for minimization of ”The Digital Divide” between African nations and the rest of the world
10. Try to foster a balance between the culture of local institutions and structures of foreign sponsors in development of centers for the teaching of information technology.
11. Prepare lecture seminars for students interested in exchange programs and or foreign studies to avoid pitfalls of cultural shock.
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Knowledge is power and Excellence is measured by lack of errors. Institutions set standards, and high achievers step up to the challenge. Recognition of quality students encourages others to work harder and strive to achieve the same.
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Today, it pleases us to observe that sporting activities can serve as a catalyst for the acceptance of the world’s cultural diversities. Sport activities have become a great contributor to peaceful coexistence among culturally diverse group of people. In this respect, The Wachuku foundation in partnership with the Reffell foundation and Reffell French Memorial School, will recruit students talented in sports and, high academic standings in their respective schools for interested universities in the United States
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