The Kear Foundation is a Local Liberian Not-for-profit Organization formed with the aim to among other things, provide humanitarian aid to the suffering masses in the areas of Education, Health, Agriculture, water, Sanitation and hygiene. As it is a known fact that Liberia recently graduated from a protracted period of civil crises and is now on a very optimistic path to national development, graduating from crises to emergence, to sustainability, and now to development aimed at prosperity. The Kear foundation sees this period as a perfect time to participate in the process of national development in the humanitarian sector.
Now that the road to sustained development is becoming clearer by the day, evidence by regular general and presidential elections, the Kear foundation sees this period as a perfect opportunity to make available helping hand to bring about conditions necessary to yield poverty alleviation on the already stranded masses of the population of the country.
Achieving this will require a whole range of planning, programming, communication, coordination, and the development of a wholesome functioning system inculcating all that is required to deliver on set goals and policies designed to promote growth in the life and livelihood of the population. To this end, the organization has commenced its operation in Liberia with offices on S.D. Cooper Road in Paynesville.
Specifically, the Kear Foundation Seeks to make concrete, sustained, and comprehensive intervention in the lives of dwellers of our area of education both formal and informal for the population of the, especially in rural areas, where there is still a huge challenge in maintaining educational facilities, school equipment, road connectivity, and the deployment of school teachers. There is also a challenge in the implementation of the Education reform Act of 2011. In an effort to make lasting intervention, the Kear foundation will pay specific attention to the following areas:
the intention here is to first of all construct an anti-corruption database as a pilot project. This database will incorporate all schools in the proximity of our coverage area. It will be designed for the purpose of collecting academic performance data of all individual students’ performance through the school year. The result therefrom will be given proper scrutiny in keeping with established school performance standard set up by these very schools, which should also be in line with regulations from the Ministry of Education. Students’ periodic records will be placed therein, including those of attendance, class-works, quizzes, and period tests.
Final periodic test scores along with grade marks sent out by individual teachers for each student will be captured, matched with the performance policy of the school alongside those from the Ministry of Education in an effort to determine transparency in the capturing of individual students’ performance record per period. The next step will be to store the performance of score of each student till the end of the school year and match those against those placed into the report card of each student. These data will be collected by the deployment of staffers of Kear foundation assigned to individual school.
Similar records will be collected from all schools within our catchment area and matched alongside each other in an attempt to determine performance rate of individual schools and students. The annual reports from individual schools and students in an effort to understand those making passes from one grade level to another. This will help especially in the prevention of students moving to another school and trying to get enrolled in a much higher class than they deserved to be in or teacher giving grade scores to students which they do not deserve.
The above database will be presented to the Ministry of Education through their assigned District Education Officers, and County Education Officers onward to the higher ups at the Ministry of Education. All will be allowed observation access only. This privilege will be given to the general public also.
Here, Kear Foundation will, through its assigned staffers will work with individual teachers in an effort to determined material presented to students in an effort to determine whether or not those materials are fully in line with those indicated in the national school curriculum. This will present an understanding of the type, quality, and manner of material preparation and presentation. Presentation styles will also be noted here.
One of the key activities under our Education Pillar is our Students’ Enrollment and Academic Activities Financing Program (SEAFP).
This will be delivered in two folds: first we provide school activities for individual students in the form of Verifies Grant for the Needy. Here students whose parents cannot afford to get them in school due to lack of money will be considered. They will be identified and catered to under our arrangement in a way that their academic programs for different grade levels according to their needs.
The second means of supporting the schooling of students will be by the provision of scholarship to school going folks. Here students meeting designed criteria will be determined by a special Scholarships Program Team set up by the Kear Foundation.
The team will set into motion special activities leading to the recruitment of scholars to benefit from our scholarship program. These criteria will be well communicated to general public through radio programs, community town criers, and through other conventional means. Students benefiting from either of the above will be drawn from within our project activities catchment area.
Here, the Kear Foundation seeks to reactivate the program designed to provide daily school feeding of school-going kids, especially those at the lower elementary sections of schools in our catchment area. To deliver this, we will work with individual school management teams in the direction of receipt, storage, preparation, and delivery mechanisms to individual students. We will work with the Ministry of Education in the direction of gaining duty free privileges for the importation of school feeding materials and the food items themselves consumption. Following the accepted UN standard of daily package size per student matched by the length of time for continuous delivery to determine the general quantity to import for the stated purpose. Proper Warehousing and logistics programs will be used to accomplish this general task.
While parents find it difficult to enroll their children in schools, some can manage to get them in school. The next problem they are confronted with is the capacity to purchase the required academic enablement items such as Backpacks, notebooks, pens and pencils.
To help solve these problems within our catchment areas, Kear foundation will provide a good quantity of the above named items and distribute same to all enrolled kids.
Again, because the quantity is huge, we will seek duty free privilege to import them in large quantities to serve school going kids.
Commencing from the population of rural communities in Montserrado, Margibi, Bong, and River Gee Counties. These areas have been chosen on the basis of nearness to the nation’s capital, availability of land space for agriculture on a pro-bono basis, willingness of the local population to work with us, and favourable climate to grow selected crops.
In the above listed areas of intervention, the Kear Foundation seeks to cover the entire country but commencing with the above mentioned areas of focus, after which we shall ea. operate nationwide. This will provide the latitude to serve a huge number of people across the country simultaneously.
While executing the above mentioned, the Kear Foundation operates FM Radio and Television Stations aimed at providing information to the nation about the activities, accomplishment and general deportment of the organization. Although these stations will provide exclusive information of our activities nationwide, both are also opened to the airing of the activities of other Not-for-profit organizations operating nationwide.
Additionally, we air other programs which are religious, political, and social, especially those targeting women and children as well as the elderly.
We aspire to adequate coordination, communication, effort streamlining, and synchronization, of activities across the country in an effort to yield maximum delivery of key outputs of activities. We develop appropriate working tools and delivery pathway aimed at ensuring that our activities and programs reach the intended target and deliver to them the desired relief packages.
We provide humanitarian aid in the areas of Education, Health, Agriculture, water, Sanitation, and hygiene.
