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It all started in 1993 in Sinoe County. During the civil crisis in Liberia, the rebel soldiers attacked the village where the Sayklon family lived at the time.
As a result of the attack, children from the villages around there, including theirs, got missing while others were internally displaced. To give hope to three of the children who got missing from their parents and came to their internally displaced village, the Sayklons decided to shelter them. As security in and around their village became uncertain, they moved with the three missing children to Ivory Coast, a French-speaking neighboring country to Liberia. While seeking Refuge in Ivory Coast, there arrived few other children who couldn’t locate their parents. The Sayklon again took them to their refuge home. When the cease-fire seemed to hold back in Liberia, the Sayklons decided to return.
Upon their return to Liberia, they already had 14 missing children for whom they were caring for. They landed in Todee, Margibi County, one of the 15 political subdivisions of Liberia. While in Todee, they met one Mr. Massaquoi Joseph, a handicapped man who established a school there, along with Pastor Wilfred Matadi of the Church of God. Mrs. Sayklon, the wife of Peter, applied to teach at the school and was accepted. As a result of her attachment to the school, the 14 children were subsequently enrolled.
Sometime later, the two men (Massaquoi and Wilfred), the school’s founders, disagreed and subsequently fell apart, leaving the school in the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sayklon. After some time, Pastor Wilfred Matadi decided to work with the Sayklons. While they now worked together in the school, a visiting missionary stopped at the church where the school was being run and was excited at the number of children in school, so he decided to help. He started helping by purchasing land to host the school. In the subsequent time, the organization called Save The Children also started to assist with the school.
The Zion churches held a conference in the nearby village of Zina Town attended by one of their Bishops, who happened to be the President of the Zion University of Liberia. The Peter Sayklon Orphanage Home Choir was invited to this conference. Given the splendid performance of the Choir at the conference, Bishop Frank Zamolou, President of Zion University, invited the Christian Aid Ministry (CAM), which supported the Orphanage Home for several years.
The Peter Sayklon Orphanage Home is currently residing on 15 acres of land since 1996 in Sherman’s Farm Community, Bong Mine Road. Children and residents from neighboring villages attend school and work respectively with the Peter Sayklon Orphanage Home. The caregivers, kitchen staff, teachers, security, and support staffers are all from the neighboring communities.
Red Cross dug a handpump on the campus, which serves the home and residents of the communities. The Home has the only sports field (football field) that serves the entire surrounding area.
The Peter Sayklon Orphanage home has 54 orphans from beginner to 6th Grade. This is just a bird’s eye view of how the Peter Sayklon Orphanage home came into being and its purpose for existence.
