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About Reffell Foundation:
Reffell Foundation was founded in 1989 in Freetown Sierra Leone in honor of Chief J. T. Reffell, and his wife Phebean Menneh Victoria Reffell, proprietor of Reffell School from 1940 to 1996. May their soul rest in peace.
The main thrust of Reffell Education Foundation is bridging the digital divide between the children of the affluent and children of the less affluent, in particular, within the Mano River States of West Africa. The member states of the Mano River Union are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. All three-member countries were devastated by wars that engulfed the Mano River Basin since 1990. Therefore, Reffell Education Foundation has extended its activities to include fund raising in the United States, Europe and Asia, with the intent of establishing computer-training centers in the member states of the Mano River Union.
R&R Information Systems, Houston, Texas will donate one dollar for every copy of the Black Mayflower sold starting Thanksgiving Day, November 2001. At R&R Information Systems, we believe in bridging the digital divide between the children of the affluent and children that are indigent.
Contact us at:
United States:
P. O. Box 690151, Houston, TX 77070
Tel: 281-955-2621, Fax 281-469-0555
E-mail:
R&R Information Systems
Africa:
Reffell Education Foundation, 5 Dillet Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
@Reffell School Tel: 011-232-222-227176
E-mail:
Reffell School
Reffell Education Foundation
C/o Chairlady
NRC, Monrovia, Liberia
Tel: 011-231-226-818
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Phebean Reffell was born in Mushin, Nigeria to the union of Mr. & Mrs. Carpenter. Her grandmother was a freed Negro Phebean Kennedy, who migrated to Sierra Leone in the 1800. Her son Robert Carpenter was sent to Nigeria to work by a British company. Robert Carpenter married the daughter of the Oba of Benin and settled in Worri, Nigeria, where they had Phebean and her brother Robert Jr. Unfortunately, at the age of eight, Phebean lost her mother and lost her father four years latter. Her uncles Onessimus Cole and his wife Massela, who were also Negro emigrants to Freetown, became there adopted parents. They traveled quiet often along the West African coast to and from Nigeria and Freetown. During one such journey, she met J. T. Reffell whom she married when she was nineteen. A year later in 1940, they founded Reffell School, and she remained the proprietor of the school until her death in January of 1996 at the age of seventy-five.
After the death of J. T. Reffell in 1989 at age seventy nine, Reffell school was renamed Reffell French Memorial School by Phebean Reffell, and at the same time, Reffell Education Foundation was instituted.
Mission Statement
Reffell Education Foundation
Minimizing the Digital Divide.
1. Encourage science and technology in an early age among African students.
2. Conduct training workshop for teachers in the information sciences.
3. Have regional Information technology training centers
4. Produce career education package for computer scientists.
5. Create a resource center for client networking.
a. Conduct regional survey of current use of computer in the classroom
b. Track the number of teachers that are computer literate
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Many intellectuals would tell us that learning does not happen in a vacuum.. As trade barriers come down, global trade and global competition is on the increase and, cultural insensitivity is expected to decline. One way to achieve such would be through cultural exchange.
Laboramus Expectante
Will Rogers said, everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. The purpose of education is not to rid a person of total ignorance, but to give different individuals specific knowledge in specific area of interest. Knowledge achieved by different individuals can be coordinated and interlaced into various combinations of decision classes. Such classes can be used to create a functional decision making unit. In a structured society, these decision units can be bonded into various structures and forms to perform intricate functions required to run complex plants and industries as well as a successful government of culturally diverse people. Our consortium will remain a springboard for academic excellence at home and abroad.
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