My Nonprofit Reviews

Since 2005 I started contributing to my community through education in Liberia. As a young and energetic classroom teacher with students of deafness and those that could hear, I was motivated by their curiosity and their situations to explore meaningful learning activities that were perfect for postwar learners. Ten years later, after exploring different teaching methods, my school –Korto JP Vogar School System, was introduced to Full-Circle Learning and its teaching model. Before I was trained by Full-Circle Learning as visionary classroom teacher, a brochure that outlined all about the organization was issued to me and other 23 teachers who were preparing for the training in the same school. For the first time in my entire teaching career I read a document that was precisely unique for the true African class. This is a model that I strongly believe could revolutionize the absolute continents especially Africa. When I read deeper and accessed over five curriculums of Full-Circle Learning, I realized that the model or teaching approach presents a golden opportunity for learners to build a resilient community just from their classrooms. Because of these facts, I immediately signed up for the four days training. After the training and onward, my students did sense a higher purpose as I presented the connections between the goals of character development, academic learning, arts and music enrichment, conflict resolution practices, and community service. By using the Full-Circle Learning model effectively from 2014 to 2018, the little over 767 students I taught during these years have become change agents and humanitarians in their respective communities. To this date, all my students have understood the concept of oneness when they mastered the habits-of-heart through integrated learning. This made them to give back to their communities by feeding the hungry, helping the elderly with water and food and water, reciting anti-conflict speeches, raising livestock to send other kids to school, etc. This contemporary Full-Circle Learning teaching methodology is taking over the entire education sector of Africa. Our students are not only learning to earn money, they are showing love, empathy, and are working together identifying and solving specific community needs or dilemmas. Today, I am not just a classroom teacher, I am a continental trainer and lead. I work with over 20 Full-Circle Learning trainers who are also facilitating our programs in over nine African nations. All of these countries including Liberia have students in about 1,000 schools. indeed, Full-Circle Learning teaching model is the solution.

Christopher W. Swen
Africa Director
Full-Circle Learning