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news: A.G. Church Joins MOPGEL Education for All Campaign The Bethel Assembly of God Church at the Buduburam Refugee Camp recently joined the Education for All Campaign, a project launched by MOPGEL. The project, according to MOPGEL Program Assistant Dorbor Marvie, was launched in 2006 to help provide quality education to orphans, street kids and other disadvantaged children living within the Buduburam community. Following consultative meetings between the A.G. Church and the administration of the Church-run school, and MOPGEL, the church agreed to offer its school facilities and MOPGEL agreed to provide school materials and technical assistance.
The campaign currently focuses on pre-primary and primary (Kindergarten - Grade 6th) and will provide academic lessons and computer training and direct assistance to all pupils of school going age in and around the Buduburam community. The project, Mr. Marvie indicated, currently has two hundred kids in school and seeks trained volunteer teachers and fund raisers to enhance the campaign. “What keeps African children in school is the feeding program. The campaign is therefore appealing for assistance to institute a feeding program”, he said. One of the other challenges of the project is providing wages for teachers. Most of the children we have in our system are children from the street and those whose parents can’t afford to pay school fees. Because of this, the little fees charged for registration are inadequate to provide stipends for teachers. The senior pastor of the Bethel Assembly of God Church, Rev. Paul Myers, who spoke to this paper during the signing ceremony, remarked that because of the 14 -year civil war experienced in Liberia, the country is deepening in poverty. Rev. Myers said, “to reduce poverty requires collaboration between the Church, civil society organizations and government to take action, and this is why we are joining MOPGEL in this campaign”.
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