The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Garmonyou Wilson
10 March 2008
A multi-media company based in the U.S state of California called the Ohana foundation is working on a test pilot using CD's, DVD's and the like to educate students from schools which are incapacitated in all subject matters.
Abraham Taylor the country director of AgriVisual, a United Kingdom (U.K) based company which deals in audio visual work is currently working along with the Ministry of education to see the success of this new program, which has the propensity to move Liberia closer to the twenty-first century.
Speaking to the INQUIRER at the William V.S. Tubman high School where the program reached its fourth and final stage before compiled of information would be sent back to the U.K and U.S, Mr. Taylor said they have already presented at various schools in the county and were satisfied with the response from the students.
Mr. Taylor said they were not visiting the four schools that were chosen by the Ministry of Education to entertain the students but rather to educate them on an assortment of topics ranging from Math to English.
The AgriVisual country director said that they plan to deal with science in the country because of the lack of scientific equipment in schools throughout the country.
He also called on the government to help afford the 40,000 plus jeep that is equipped with audio visual equipment so that AgriVisual can reach rural parts of the country and spread knowledge that s limited in the post war situation for which the country finds itself.
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