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WHS Helps Sister School in Sierra Leone |
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At our Spring Arts Evening, on Tuesday, May 8th, the Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay community participated in a fundraiser for our sister school, Goderich Waldorf School of Sierra Leone.
Since 2005-2006, the Goderich Committee, one of the standing committees of the WHS Student Council, has held fundraising events for Goderich Waldorf School. This year’s funds will support the school’s medical fund with an eye to providing mosquito nets for the students. For years, WHS supported the school’s lunch program and when other funding became available for school lunches, we began our support of the schools’ medical fund.
The Committee gave a presentation about the Goderich Waldorf School to parents, faculty and friends at the Spring Arts Evening and auctioned theme baskets created and contributed by each of the classes. At the end of the evening, in honor of the GoderichWaldorf School, our school community sang an African Freedom Song, Siyahamb’ ekukha nyeni kwenkos (We are marching in the light of God).
The Goderich Waldorf School of Sierra Leone was founded in 2001 at the end of Sierra Leone’s ten year civil war by Shannoh Kandoh, a social worker from the area who founded Action for Child Protection. The school, originally located in the Goderich village area of Freetown, has now moved to the Rokel area, also near Freetown, and is the first Waldorf school in West Africa. It is a tuition-free school dedicated to helping all children; many of the students were displaced or orphaned during the civil war and otherwise may likely never receive an education.
Shannoh Kandoh chose to educate the children of the school according to Waldorf philosophy because he truly believed that these children needed much more than a standard education. As stated by Abu Mansaray, one of the class teachers as well as the school’s social worker, “These traumatized children need more than a straightforward education. We mean to change men’s hearts through the healing power of this creative education.” He strongly feels that Waldorf education teaches a child to live with purpose, understanding and creativity.
Supporting Goderich Waldorf School is something Waldorf High Schoolstudents take very seriously. It has been extremely rewarding to see how much the school has grown. With the growth of the school come more demands and more children to support. If you are interested in helping or wish to donate please contact Virginia Buhr on behalf of the Goderich Committee of Waldorf High School.
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