3rd ANNUAL BACK-TO-SCHOOL BOOK RIDE 2022

Antioch. California, September 23, 2022.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

The need is simple:

Children and students in Liberia need books and learning materials.

Learning Squared is organizing its rd annual back-to-school book ride throughout our project areas in Liberia, distributing learning materials, notebooks, pens, and pencils to underprivileged students and community schools.

Many vulnerable and underserved children whose families cannot afford to keep them in school are without books and supplies for the school year. The book ride will assist many parents who are faced with financial difficulties and can't afford increased tuition and other school-related expenses.

The proposed event is a month-long back-to-school book ride across the project locations and setting up two (2) community-owned notebooks and supplies hubs in two (2) counties, Bong and Bomi Counties. The Hub will serve as a depository of notebooks and supplies for schools and students. In addition, schools can request additional

supplies through these Hubs that a joint management team will manage, comprising LSL, school authorities, and parents.

Our goal is to support over 5,000 students with learning materials, notebooks, pens, and pencils, this year.

ABOUT LEARNING SQUARED:

Learning Squared Liberia is a registered Liberian civil society. Founded in 2016 and rebranded as Learning Squared in July 2019. The organization supports early childhood (ECE) and primary education efforts in rural Liberia. By providing young people, women, and children access to creative learning opportunities and innovative, scalable ways for women, girls,

and communities to finance their small businesses through a social business model and support their children's education.

Read more about Learning Squared Liberia from our website: Email: info@learningsquaredlib.org Website: Www.learningsquaredlib.org. Phone: Liberia +231(0)886828014- USA +1 510 200 3732

NAYMOTE and Learning Squared advancing peace-building and financial inclusion efforts in Liberia

Monrovia, Liberia May 9, 2022. Liberian and US-based charity Learning Squared Liberia announced today that NAYMOTE -Partners for Democratic Development had awarded an eight-month grant to support peacebuilding and livelihood activities in Lofa and Nimba Counties. Through social, economic, and livelihood initiatives, the program will identify and support six local women and youth groups in conflict-prone communities.

The intervention is a build-in component of the Learning Squared social business program, which focuses on working with rural women and communities to promote peace, and economic progress. It improves people's lives in low-income communities around Liberia. In addition, it supports efforts that advance financial inclusion, literacy, and peace-building benefiting 500 rural communities' residents directly and indirectly.

According to the Executive Director of NAYMOTE, Eddie D. Jarwolo. NAYMOTE is pleased to partner with Learning Squared to enhance peacebuilding, dialogue, and social cohesion in conflict-prone communities with support from UNDP Liberia and UN Peace-building Fund. In addition, the institution will facilitate other activities under the grant, including policy dialogues and massive civic engagement events in the project locations. NAYMOTE is dedicated to working with Learning Squared to support peace-building, and financial inclusion efforts in rural Liberia, noted Eddie.

The CEO of Learning Squared, Anthony S. Kolaco, stressed the need for more support toward sustaining peace in Liberia. He further highlighted the efforts of Learning Squared over the last five years. As a result, 200 women have benefited from our intervention in Margibi, Bomi, and Montserrado counties. We are excited to partner with NAYMOTE, with a long-standing experience over the years and one of the leading civil society organizations promoting grassroots democracy and peacebuilding efforts in Liberia noted Anthony.

The program will empower residents by equipping them with the skills and resources necessary to uncover their potential as entrepreneurs and providers for themselves and their families. Subsequently, helping to build and support community social cohesion.

ABOUT LEARNING SQUARED

Learning Squared Liberia is a 501(c)(3) U.S. and Liberian-based charity that support and leads early childhood (EEC) and primary education efforts through our social business initiative in rural Liberia. We provide young people and children access to creative learning opportunities and a platform for women to generate income to support their children's education through a grassroots and innovative solution.

Read more about Learning Squared Liberia from our website: www.learningsquaredlib.org, info@learningsquaredlib.org.

Announcing our Brand Ambassador

Antioch, California, United States – March 11, 2022. We are delighted to announce that we have a new Brand Ambassador, Wilfred T. Sackie, Jr., who will lead our STEM program in high schools for girls. We are grateful that Wilfred has accepted to work with us and support our initiative. Noted Anthony S. Kolaco, President of Learning Squared.

Wilfred was born in Montserrado County, Liberia, and experienced the third wave of the violent conflict in Liberia at a very early age. He obtained his education at the Maggie Lampkins Institute in Paynesville City, Liberia. He has received many accolades as a symbol of academic excellence and passion for helping others. Wilfred has always been involved with volunteerism and community organization, reaching out to his peers and helping to establish after-school programs in underserved communities. Wilfred has a keen interest in the sciences and has also joined other students to run a school program to help more girls take on careers in the sciences.

In March 2014, Liberia became the third country to report the deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) spread into the country. When the Ebola-hit Liberia. At the time, young Wilfred's father name Mr. Wilfred Sackie, Sr., worked as a health worker at the Methodist Pentecostal Health Center. Wilfred's father was a frontline worker who died while serving his country diligently. Wilfred remembered receiving the news of his father passing at a very young age. And he still carries the trauma of losing a loved one to a deadly disease without any benefit to his wife and children.

Wilfred recently graduated from the Maggie Lampkins Institute located in the soul clinic community, Paynesville City, Montserrado County. Additionally, Wilfred emerged as the valedictorian for the just-ended 2020/2021 West African Senior school Examination (WASSE), with the highest mark in the Paynesville City school system. Wilfred's ambition is to study electrical engineering at the university level. However, he decided to study or pursue a future career in electrical engineering based on his strength in subjects related to sciences and help young Liberians develop skills and interest in the sciences. My biggest challenge now is getting to college, but I am hopeful, with this opportunity, there is help on the way. I am exhilarated to be representing the Learning Squared brand as the BRAND AMBASSADOR. Their story resonates perfectly with my vision and perspective of never giving up irrespective of the many challenges life may throw at young people in Liberia. The core values of this institution are what draw

me and have helped transform many children and women in rural Liberia.

ABOUT LEARNING SQUARED

Learning Squared Liberia is a 501(c)(3) U.S. and Liberian-based charity support and leads early childhood (EEC) and primary education efforts through our social business initiative in rural Liberia. We provide young people and children access to creative learning opportunities and a platform for women to generate income to support their children's education through a grassroots and innovative solution. Read more about Learning Squared Liberia from our website: www.learningsquaredlib.org, akolaco@learningsqauredlib.org