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Overview: EDUCATION
FACE Africa
was founded on the premise that the most effective way to promote positive
change and help develop war torn countries is to invest in the education
of its young children. Naturally, we decided to establish education as
our first Program area for 2008. In
early 2008, our Fund a Child's
Education Program raised over $3000 to send 15 disadvantaged children to
school in Liberia.
The
next stage of our Education Program will involve bringing innovation
education programs to Liberia to help tackle the
monumental task of piecing together the country's broken education system.
LIBERIA
70% of the population
in Liberia is illiterate. Most schools throughout the country were
destroyed during the conflicts, and during that time many teachers fled or
were killed. Few children of any age have received any education over the
14 years of wars and the small numbers of schools which have been
re-opened since the end of the conflicts are overcrowded. Less than half
of the school age children living in Liberia are enrolled in school and
most teachers are working as volunteers.
Girls face a
particularly difficult challenge in enrolling in school and staying there.
There is a historic family preference to send boys to school, and girls
who do go to school face the well-documented and pervasive practice of
sexual and labor exploitation by male teachers who dominate the teaching
profession. The drop out rate among girls is high and teenage pregnancy is
all too common; additionally, the HIV-AIDS rate is rising.
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EDUCATION PROJECTS IN LIBERIA
Coming Soon...
FUTURE PROJECTS
Coming Soon...
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