Liberia - Parents Cry Over Inability to Enrol Children in School Due to Economic Hardship

Monrovia — With the primary and secondary academic school year now in its third week today, Monday, September 17, some school-going children are still not in school, owing to financial difficulties being faced by their parents and guardians and despite the Liberian government's free and compulsory education.

This became visible on a Seventh Day Adventist school campus Friday, September 14, where our reporter bumped into four little girls between the ages of six and eight, who should be in school but are not, had gone to meet their friend, who was still school at that time. The kids had gone to see their friend unbeknownst to their parents.

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