Educate Liberian girls for one year

In mid-February, Liberian schools cautiously and systematically re-opened after the worst Ebola crisis in the country’s history. The resumption was not without hiccups, but by mid-March, all of the Girls Ed students were back in school. Classes will run through the summer and fall, possibly switching the Liberian annual school start date to January or February for the foreseeable future.

The last case of Ebola in Liberia was reported in late March, which indicates the end of the outbreak there. Now the exhausted country looks towards the tasks of re-building its economy, infrastructure and especially Liberia’s fragile health care system, which lost many health care workers to the disease.

Before Ebola, many of our girls were interested in all sorts of professions, including doctors, nurses, geologists, teachers, accountants, lawyers, and even a gospel singer. As Liberia recovers economically from the epidemic, it will need an educated workforce to re-build.

While education has always been crucial in Liberia, it has become critical to the country’s recovery from Ebola. Today your contributions to Girls Ed in Liberia take on even more importance: an educated Liberian girl will not only lift herself and her family out of poverty, but her country as well. Won’t you invest in our girls right now? Thank you so much!