Kumba Foundation has announced plans to carry out a massive distribution of various textbooks along with backpacks across Liberia.

According to the foundation, the distribution of the educational items will commence in September 2022 in Montserrado County.

Country Director of the foundation, Peter Vonyeegar, said the items have been shipped to Liberia and within months, schools in Monrovia and across the country will receive those learning materials free of charge.

Education has been a struggle in Liberia since the long-lasting effects of a 14-year civil war and the 2014 closure of schools due to the Ebola outbreak.

According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) estimates, about 15 to 20 percent of children between the ages of six and 14 are not in class in Liberia.

‘These are up-to-date textbooks covering all subjects and backpacks that shall be given to our kids free as a means of helping them to have a wonderful school year’, Vonyeegar said.

He added that the organisation’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Princess Guwor Vonyeegar, is very passionate about easing the everyday struggle children in Liberia go through just to acquire education.

Vonyeegar disclosed that the Lynn Public School English Department Head in Massachusetts, Shannon Conlon, has communicated with the foundation’s CEO that the school currently has a lot of extra books and would love to continuously partner with the organisation in getting the books for children in Africa.

‘While our CEO was getting ready for this shipment to Liberia, the head of the English department of Lynn public school reached out and donated a lot of books to the process and also worked with us closely plus the Lynn English JROTC students on packaging the items.

‘To that, we as the Kumba Foundation will love to say a big thank you to them’.

Kumba Foundation has been helping youths in Liberia achieve educational success as it strives to ensure that they are provided with school supplies and other forms of support.

Source: Front Page Africa

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