Monrovia — Thousands of residents of the slum community of West Point, a nearby suburb of Monrovia have been made homeless by sea erosion. Some residents who spoke with FrontPageAfrica said on Tuesday night when they were asleep erosion took place thereby destroying several homes and valuables. Veronica Lincoln 32, and a mother of 7, said she and her children have been made homeless and have nowhere to sleep. They have begged a neighbor to allow them stay for short time. Veronica said that she was involved in an auction business prior to the sea disaster, adding that the erosion wiped everything away including her auction goods from which she fed her children. She said she has been displaced for the past days and do not know what to do next and is appealing to the government to come to their aid by resettling them. "The government must come and help us to see how best they can handle us. We are not going to be here. The only thing we need is sleeping place for us, we don't have sleeping place, we somewhere we can be" said Veronica. More than 200 primary school students have also lost their school to the erosion and are now using a very small church in the community to continue their education. The Global Harvest Institute Nursery students were out in the open field of Kru Beach reciting their lessons in order to provide room for the other students to learn. The students were forced to use the outside due to the lack of school building. The erosion wiped two schools and few houses in the township leaving scores of students out of school and residents homeless after a heavy pour of three days rain in Monrovia. The heavy downpour destroyed the Global Harvest Institute and the Love Our Children First Step Schools all in the West Point Slum Community. The principal of the two schools, Mrs. Musu Beyan and Christopher Tolbert have launched appeals to national government and international partners to assist the students return to school. The two principals described as disgusting and troubling the erosion that obstructed the children learning process, especially during the time the schools are deep into the third marking period of the academic school year. "This is disturbing to the learning process of our kids, can you imagine we cannot even see the debris of the schools, we are talking about here because the sea has wiped the entire schools away," Mrs. Beyan noted. For his part, Tolbert wants a way out for the students to return to school. "We want a way to be found for the children to be absorbed in other schools within the township in order to provide leverage for them to be on par with their colleagues," he stressed. A parent, Maria Cooper who three kids attend the two schools described the situation as bad luck and a setback to her kids education. "What will I do now; the two schools that were carried by the sea are the schools that my three children were attending. Since the water destroyed the schools my children have been sitting home whole day, my two boys are attending the Global Harvest Institute while my 11 years old girl is attending the Love Our Children First Step School but all of them are now sitting home doing nothing because their schools are gone," she explained. Student Alvin Duployah, a 5th Grade student of the Global Harvest told FPA that he can't believe that he is sitting home again after Ebola kept him and his friends out of school for months. "We sat for long due to Ebola and when we returned to school this ugly sea water has taken away our school for nothing, making us to stay home again. I am calling on the government to please help us return to school," he cried. Other residents of West Point are calling on the government to relocate them. The citizens told FPA that they can no longer manage the force from the sea erosion that has destroyed several homes. The residents explained that they are faced with sea and beach pollution as well as a mosquitoes bit, affecting their health conditions. Previous governments including the regime of Charles Taylor attempted relocating the Township of West Point but the plan did not materialize due to huge public outcries for government to reconsider its decision apparently residents were still enjoying the confidence of the ocean. This latest appeal launched by the West Pointers comes barely a week ago when heavy sea erosion destroyed two schools and several homes as the result of downpour. Titus Wilson, a father of six children explained that the sea water has embarrassed him and his family, saying he has spread all of his kids to his friends and family members while he and his wife sleep in the video club and take their bath in the public bathroom using friends' buckets and soap. "It is disgraceful my dear, for a man like me to beg people for bucket and soap for me and my wife to take bath while our children are in different people homes putting burden on them, we want government to please help us because we have not gone anywhere with the rainy season," he pleaded. Some of the West Pointers want government to take the initiative to relocate them before the sea forces them out of the Township, saying if they are removed by the sea they will not get anything from government or donor, but if government relocates them, they will be provided a package. "For me if you ask me I will say I want government to remove me from West Point for me to get something to start my life other than for the sea to take us from here and we get nothing," Roland Farya, a fisherman noted. The West Pointers are however calling on their district Representative and politicians to come to their aid and advocate and look out for their relocation. Len Mosesga Saydee an instructor of the school told FPA that he has taken the students outside in the field to allow the rest of the students a space in the church to do their lessons. He said the church is so small that it cannot accommodate the entire students' body but because they have no choice and nowhere else to go, a community church pastor provided them that facility to use in the meantime. "Last Tuesday our school was swept away by sea erosion and now we have been using a church which is too small to hold our students and now the students cannot learn under such an atmosphere" Saydee said. Due to the congestion and darkness in the church, the Administrator for the School said they have to burn two gallons of gasoline every day to keep the room bright for the students and he is appealing for help from International Partners and government. Global Harvest institute a primary school had about 200 students now displaced. "We have been in search of an ideal place to move to but yet we have not gotten anything" he added. He said the children are the future leaders of Liberia and need better and safe environment for learning since their school has been swept away by the sea. Government providing lip service An advocacy group Disaster Victims Association of Liberia said the government has been dormant on attending to the plight of the erosion victims especially their demand for relocation. The institution through its chairman Demore Moore said from last year the institution and the residents of affected communities have been in discussion and meeting with the government including the National Housing Authority but all the meetings have not yielded results. Chairman Moore said during one of the meetings they attended last year, the government provided two optional for possible relocation including Marshall in Margibi County and Jatondo Town in Brewerville township. He said the government told them that Jatondo was better and even the residents who yearned for relocation should prefer that location. Jatondo town has 150 acres of land which belongs to government and has some housing facilities already but he was surprise when government in return asked the residents to pay some money an amount that has not been disclosed yet. "How you can they be demanding money from people who have lost their homes to natural disaster, Government is only providing lip service", Moore said. "We went to meeting last year and they gave us two option communities for relocation Marshall and Jatondo town in Brewerville so we said fine if government do that for us we will be fine but for government to turn around and ask us to bring money was astonishing. There is 150 acre of land for government we were asked to build our own structures and we agreed but since then we have not seen anything" he added, Moore is requesting and appealing to international philanthropists, sympathizers to come to the aid of disaster victims for government is only waiting for another disaster before they can intervene. "We are just appealing to philanthropists, sympathizers and the international community to come to our aid. So that we can be relocated, because the government only wants to wait to see something else happened, some houses are hanging, it is not easy the next thing that will happen is for the water to enter the main road. It is good to deal with issues at a conflict state don't wait until it reaches the crisis stage before you can deal will it" said Moore. Take our thing in our hands Moore told FPA that they are prepared to take matters into their own hands by organizing a peaceful march either to the Capitol Building or at the President's House, since nobody wants to attend to their demands. "We are planning to have a march to draw the attention of the government, that we are not making fun around here. So we need to move the government either to the capitol or the president own hose to let our voices be heard and we need to be careful for you can't just keep us vulnerable. These are the kinds of things that make people crazy. You build your own house and the sea comes and takes it", he lamented. Residents of New Kru town, a community on the Bushrod Island are also afraid that if nothing is done to tackle the erosion the entire Point Four could be wiped out soon. The erosion has destroyed many homes and the only government school in the area, D-Tweh Memorial high school which fence has been undermined as well.