About mid-morning, all the students and the faculty escorted the visitors further up the road to the new school property..
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Buchanan is just 6 degrees north of the equator!The tropical sun is unrelenting, and the humidity here near the ocean is high year round.
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This is just a portion of the 10.6 acres (4.3 ha) recently acquired for the development of a new Pillar school campus in Buchanan!
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Though annual rainfall here exceeds 150 inches (380 cm), the sandy soil supports only low forest or scrub, often interspersed with areas of grassland known as "coastal savanna".
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The Little Bee-Eater is a breeding visitor to Liberia during the dry season (Nov-May). This pair (near the school's new property) was watching for insects from a low branch. Their nest, a burrow in the sandy soil, must have been somewhere in the area.
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That's better... a nice close-up of the Little Bee-Eater! Its leafy-green upperparts enable it to blend into its habitat surprisingly well!
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The new property is a peninsula of high ground, surrounded by beautiful mangrove wetlands! These slow-moving backwaters drain into the St.John River, which flows into the ocean not far away.
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After exploring the property...
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...and inspecting the water's edge,...
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...we came back up the slope...
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...and formed a big circle...
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...as Luther Tarpeh, Pillar Field Director for Liberia, officiated in a ground-breaking ceremony!
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After both Liberians and American visitors had helped to "turn the sod"...
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...we posed for a "ground-breakers" group photo! (There I am... back row, third from the left!)
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Rob Cruver had brought a satellite phone with him, which he used to make on-site reports back to WAWZ, the Pillar's Christian radio station in New Jersey.
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After hearing one of Rob's reports, a radio listener called in to make a generous contribution toward the development of this new Christian school campus at Buchanan in Liberia!
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This is just a portion of the 10.6 acres (4.3 ha) recently acquired for the development of a new Pillar school campus in Buchanan!.
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Though annual rainfall here exceeds 150 inches (380 cm), the sandy soil supports only low forest or scrub, often interspersed with areas of grassland known as "coastal savanna"..
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The Little Bee-Eater is a breeding visitor to Liberia during the dry season (Nov-May). This pair (near the school's new property) was watching for insects from a low branch. Their nest, a burrow in the sandy soil, must have been somewhere in the area..
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That's better... a nice close-up of the Little Bee-Eater! Its leafy-green upperparts enable it to blend into its habitat surprisingly well!.
.
The new property is a peninsula of high ground, surrounded by beautiful mangrove wetlands! These slow-moving backwaters drain into the St.John River, which flows into the ocean not far away..
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After exploring the property....
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...and inspecting the water's edge,....
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...we came back up the slope....
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...and formed a big circle....
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...as Luther Tarpeh, Pillar Field Director for Liberia, officiated in a ground-breaking ceremony!.
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After both Liberians and American visitors had helped to "turn the sod"....
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...we posed for a "ground-breakers" group photo! (There I am... back row, third from the left!).
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Rob Cruver had brought a satellite phone with him, which he used to make on-site reports back to WAWZ, the Pillar's Christian radio station in New Jersey..
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After hearing one of Rob's reports, a radio listener called in to make a generous contribution toward the development of this new Christian school campus at Buchanan in Liberia!.
More great pictures, Gord!
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