The Kposowa Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization that was formed in 2005 by co-founders, Sarah Culberson and John Woehrle. Our first goal is to restore Bumpe High School (BHS, a boarding school) to its prominence as a shining star of academic excellence in West Africa. Our projects include:

Sarah and her biological father, Joe Kposowa

History BHS was ransacked and burned by R.U.F. rebels during the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone that lasted from 1991-2002. Most of the buildings and furnishings were destroyed or stolen. BHS was once a renowned boarding school with an enrollment of over 600 students from as far away as Nigeria. The 11-year Civil war caused serious and grotesque human rights violations to many people. Thousands of Leonean people were left without hands, arms, feet, legs and with a homeland left in chaos. According to Human Rights Watch, over 50,000 people were killed during the war, with over one million people having been displaced. (For more information about the Kposowa Foundation, Sierra Leone, and the war, please read our History Page)

The war lasted for a decade. It became so savage that the rebels cut off infants’ and adults’ hands, fingers, even whole arms and legs