Education
Creating a New Generation of Leaders
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Story of Djela and SahiDjela has an academic scholarship to study medicine. She hopes for funds from BRAID Africa for food and lodging to enable her to live close to campus, a more cost effective solution than paying for a moto taxi (motorcycle) to make the long daily commute to campus to and from the refugee camp over bumpy, potholed, clay roads that become muddy and almost impassable during the long rainy season. Living near campus and sharing space with other refugee women college students would also enable Djela to focus time on her studies that she would otherwise spend commuting.
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Sahi wants to teach agriculture, both in classrooms and in the field, visiting small village farms and training peasant farmers to improve their crops and increase their yields. He hopes for both an academic scholarship and, if possible, support for food and lodging closer to campus than the refugee camp.
Twenty refugees have passed exams for admission to the local community college. Tuition, books, insurance, fees and other educational expenses for one semester for a single student costs $200. Another $100 would enable a student to pay for a semester’s food and lodging near campus.
Would you like to help war refugee students like Djela, Sahi and many more study to become doctors, teachers, nurses, information technology specialists, leaders and role models for their communities? Your gift of any amount can help these young women and men restore shattered lives and dreams, achieve their potentials and take an active part in the recovery of their communities.
Twenty refugees have passed exams for admission to the local community college. Tuition, books, insurance, fees and other educational expenses for one semester for a single student costs $200. Another $100 would enable a student to pay for a semester’s food and lodging near campus.
Would you like to help war refugee students like Djela, Sahi and many more study to become doctors, teachers, nurses, information technology specialists, leaders and role models for their communities? Your gift of any amount can help these young women and men restore shattered lives and dreams, achieve their potentials and take an active part in the recovery of their communities.
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This is the library of the local Liberian community college closest to the refugee camp. There are no books for students to check out. The science department would like to have more than one microscope for biology students. The principal at the local multilateral high school that provides both academic and vocational training to teens by day and to adults in the evening hopes for working equipment in vocational classrooms so they can teach hands-on classes instead of just theory. He would also appreciate a generator for lights and electricity so they can continue to offer night classes to adults.
Would you like to help outfit classrooms with working lights and equipment, and school and college libraries with books? |