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education


Liberia Schools Crisis: Unfit Buildings and No Books Leave Children Behind

Cestos City – Twelve-year-old Baby Girl Yarkah is in the first grade and attends the Upper Timbo Community School in Little Liberia, Rivercess County. She shares a small chair with another girl because there are not enough seats to accommodate the school’s 200 students. The chairs have no arms. There are no desks at all….

By Mae Azango with photos by Chase Walker
Front Page Africa newspaper and website

Liberia Education Crisis: A 3-part series reveals schools in chaos

Cestos City – Students in Rivercess County are learning less than half of the curriculum each semester because of untrained teachers and a broken pay system that forces teachers to abandon schools for days, even weeks at a time. The first of a 3-part series on Liberia’s rural schools crisis by New Narratives fellow Mae…

By Mae Azango with photos by Chase Walker
FrontPage Africa in collaboration with New Narratives

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