Valerie Karigitho, East African Centre for Human Rights,
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On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, Oxfam International and GCE-US co-hosted an event on Education as the Great Equalizer during the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The remote Kenyan village I called home from 1999-2001 had just one reliable phone line located in a Catholic Church. The Priest there allowed me to accept incoming calls from my parents in New York every other Sunday at 7 p.m. If I missed that call, which happened on occasion, two long weeks would pass before that phone would ring again.
There is a wildfire beginning to rage in public education in Liberia. Without immediate firefighting from many directions, this wildfire could spread elsewhere fast. Unlike other fires that can be dampened and extinguished quickly, a wildfire “differs from other fires by its extensive size, the speed at which it can spread out from its original source, its potential to change direction unexpectedly, and its ability to jump” borders.
The first to spot this explosive fire was the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia; it sounded the alarms. The government of the Republic of Liberia, with leadership of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Minster of Education George Kronnisanyon Werner, has developed the “Partnership Schools for Liberia,” plan for private, for-profit providers to manage all primary schools in the nation by 2020.