Liberia: When One Adult's Mistake Embarrasses a Child

Monrovia — Recently at the ground breaking ceremony of the Mt. Coffee Power project held in Harrisburg, a group of school children was assembled by their teachers with placards bearing different inscriptions. But on one placard, which landed in the hand of the wrong children, there was an inscription, but it was not funny.

The placard reads: "Mother President, Please pity my condition, I am a handicap". A visitor upon reading this tried to find out what was wrong with the kids holding it. First the visitor felt they were deaf and dumb, but as she would later find out, they were perfectly ok, but they were only holding the wrong placard.

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