A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Jimmy, who was very excited to share his story with YUGA and other young people around the world, telling me how education is so important to him, but he doesn’t know why he is always behind when it comes to making the grades.
He is 15 years old and in the fourth grade. He has been attending school, but due to his poor performance in class, his parents decided to push him out of the house and even refuse to pay his school fees. Speaking to you now, Jimmy spends all his time playing football and video games.
Jimmy is young and passionate, and describes education as something every child should have. He concluded by saying because of his distance from school, he is nowadays lead by peer pressure to engage in to some bad habit.
He spoke with one of YUGA’s international bloggers [Beyan] in a one-on-one interview expressing his like for education but he is not given any second chances. This boy told me impressively that he has a dream that no one can stop and that is becoming a computer engineer or a professional builder.
Jimmy’s situation places me [Beyan] in a position to say we have not done any thing yet. There are still less fortunate children with different issues affecting their lives and needs that we have not met.
Every day, we meet up with different children with different situation. Today is Jimmy; tomorrow is another child There are a lot of problems still affecting children in some secret part of Liberia. There is a need for the government of Liberia to effectively and embark on a back-to-school campaign engaging parents whose children are not in school.
I [Beyan] want to use this medium to call on every one to support child education in Liberia, for there are still many children live affected due to the lack of education.
Thanks to Plan Liberia its awesome projects in improving the livelihoods of children and their families.
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