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Bridge International Promised to Solve Liberia’s Education Crisis. Six Years On Schools Are Still Failing

In 2016 US-based Bridge International Came To Save Liberia’s Schools. In the first of a two-part investigation with New Narratives Eric Opa Doue finds Bridge schools doing little better than state schools. YARPAH TOWN, River Cess County – Babygirl Smith helps her mother to sell snacks at the town market every Monday. The 17-year-old should…

Eric Opa Doue
FrontPage Africa

Teacher Shortages Force Schools to Close as Rural Education Crisis Continues

This two-part series by Eric Opa Doue with New Narratives examines the county’s school system. MONWEH, River Cess- Jacob Beegar sits on a rattan chair under a palaver hut while his friends run around. Jacob doesn’t join them. The 15-year-old doesn’t want to play. He would rather be in school. Jacob should be in the…

Eric Opa Doue
FrontPage Africa

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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