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Liberia: American Congresswomen Backs Government Education Efforts
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Liberia Government (Monrovia)
13 March 2008
Posted to the web 13 March 2008
Monrovia
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has described as laudable efforts by United States Senator Connie Hess Williams to contribute resources to the building of a school for Liberian children. The school, currently known as the Gbenwein Public School in Marshall Territory, Margibi County, will be rebuilt under the auspices of the Liberia Education Trust (LET).
According to an Executive Mansion release, the President spoke Monday when she and the US congresswoman toured the Gbenwein Public School. The Liberian leader said Liberian children should count themselves lucky to be benefiting from such a humanitarian gesture. On behalf of the children and people of Liberia, the President expressed appreciation to the Pennsylvanian Senator and her family. The Liberian leader is the brainchild of the Liberian Education Trust (LET) which solicits funding through philanthropists and other private organizations abroad. LET has as its primary objective the construction of fifty (50) schools and the training of five hundred (500) teachers. The organization is also striving to provide five-thousand scholarships for girls over a three year period. 18 local schools have been constructed in the country under the program while over one-thousand students have been awarded scholarships.
Speaking earlier, Senator Connie Hess Williams said she was happy to contribute a school to Liberian children. The school, the US congresswomen disclosed, will be named in honor of her late father, Mr. Leon Hess, whom she described as an educator who had a passion for education.
The Gbenwein Public School has a current enrollment of 670 students with a ratio of 65% boys and 35% girls. It has a morning session which runs kindergarten to the 3rd grade and a night session running 4th to 9th grade.
The cost of the project is put at approximately US $57-thousand dollars. The construction of a school grew out of an appeal to President Johnson Sirleaf by residents of the area, then known as Joblo Town during a visit to the area last year by the President.
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