It all started with a girl. At 11 years old, she was selling herself for clean drinking water, when all she really wanted was to go to school. More Than Me was founded to meet her needs. We opened a school, the MTM Academy, for 150 girls and saw major progress. Then Ebola hit. The world didn’t act quickly enough, and we knew we had to fight to save her life. After spending six months on the front lines fighting Ebola and seeing three students lose their families (and many other children lose their own lives), we realized that our girls would never be safe, never truly thrive, until Liberia does. The first step to rebuilding Liberia is education for all.
Liberia’s education system is a mess. 65% of primary school age children are out of school, and only 20% of students enrolled in Grade 1, enroll in Grade 12.
With just 4 million people and 1.5 million children, Liberia has tremendous potential. The Ministry of Education has asked us to partner with them to replicate our model in Liberian schools and add capacity to the ministry to meet their priorities. We are committed to maintaining a center of excellence at our Academy while also scaling our successes into pilot government schools across the country.
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