We are providing education and opportunities to children in rural Liberia, West Africa.

Ziah Mission School was founded in 1960 by Christian Africans in the very rural town of Ziah, located in Nimba County, Liberia, West Africa. Nimba County is in northeastern Liberia and shares borders with the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in the east and the Republic of Guinea in the northeast.  Ziah Mission School was the first school in its area to educate African students at the elementary school level. 

Students are taught Christian, academic, cultural, and social principles. Since the organization of the school, students have developed into contributing, independent adults and are helping to build a better Liberia. 

Over the years, the demand for education has outgrown the size of the school. The original school building, built in 1960, was not meant to accommodate the many children who want to be educated today. Friends of Ziah Mission School, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, incorporated in the state of Massachusetts, has a single purpose--to build a new and larger school for the children in the town of Ziah. Thus far $66,000.00 has been donated toward the $150,000.00 needed to complete and furnish the new school building. Offering their gifts and talents in the operation of the charity, a working, volunteer Board of Directors ensure that administrative expenses are extremely low. Hence, practically every dollar raised goes toward construction. 

This new school will accommodate every child who wants to learn, with room for growth in the future. It will make a tremendous difference in the lives of the children and will continue to endow the town of Ziah with an educational legacy for decades to come.