It was a happy day in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on May 14 as the REAP Institute School for Liberian refugees was dedicated during a two-hour ceremony. For more than twelve years, REAP has been teaching up to 135 students in a rented house. Classes were doubled up in order to make room for 12 grades in an old three- bedroom house that also housed the administration office and a computer lab full of outdated computers. The high school classes were held on the back porch and many of the younger grades met in the carport of the house. Through generous donations given through Extreme Response International the land and building were purchased, and no more monthly rent means more money for educating the children. Mike Bishop, Dan Maloy and Dan McCann represented Extreme Response at the dedication which also included many pastors, businessmen, friends and family of the REAP students. Now that the school belongs to REAP they can begin to look for work teams to build new classrooms to accommodate growth as well as to allow for each grade to have their own classroom.
submitted by Dan Maloy

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