Africa-Press – Liberia. The United Bassa Organization in the Americas (UNIBOA), a non-for-profit organization, has begun the full tuition payment for over 50 students who are financially challenged to get quality education for the 2023/2024 academic year in Liberia’s four Bassa speaking counties including Montserrado, River Cess, Grand Bassa and Margibi.
UNIBOA’s Pennsylvania chapter coordinator in Liberia on last week commenced the disbursement of half of the organization’s scholarships funds in the tone of LD$1,140,000 (Liberian Dollar One Million One Hundred Forty Thousand).
Benefiting students in Margibi County are being selected from several public and faith-based learning institutions including the St. Augustine’s Episcopal Mission High School, Kakata Community College, St. Paul Lutheran High School, St. Mark Preparatory School, R.S. Caulfield Junior & Senior High School, and Harbel Multilateral High School amongst many others.
Other beneficiaries in schools in Grand Bassa County include the W.P.L. Brumskine United Methodist High School, Buchanan Open Bible Standard School, Bassa Seventh Day Adventist Mission High School and St. Peter Claver Catholic School while Montserrado County benefiting students are from the Paynesville Central Academy, St. Benedict Menni Catholic High School, Licosess Demonstration School, Sims Elementary, Junior and Senior High School, Salvation in Christ School System while UNIBOA’s scholarship students in River Cess County are from the Charles’ Town Public School and Cestos Junior & Senior High School.
Making the first semester tuition payment of the students on their respective campuses, UNIBOA’s Pennsylvania Liberia coordinator, Mr. Attia J. Bomosee, on behalf of the scholarship committee head Mrs. Marie M. Giahyue-Payne, recounted that the United Bassa Organization in the Americas Pennsylvania chapter under the leadership of Mr. Trokon Ismael Johnson, Sr. launched a “dollar for health and education” fund drive on December 24, 2016.
Mr. Bomosee said: “Having been cognizant of the decline in the health and educational sector of Liberia, PA chapter decided to embark upon a noble task to raise funds to provide scholarships for students in primary and secondary schools and solicit medical supplies for subsequent donations to needed hospitals in the four Bassa speaking counties. The project was met with enthusiasms in the Pennsylvania Community, United States and Liberia.”
He disclosed that back in March 2018; the chapter sent a delegation to Liberia to conduct an assessment. While in Liberia, he said, the team visited six schools in Grand Bassa and Montserrado counties; Bassa SDA High School, St. Peter Clever High School, Bassa High School, Bassa Elementary Demonstration School, St. John Episcopal Elementary Junior High and WPL Brumskine High School.
UNIBOA’s Pennsylvania Liberia coordinator stated that since then the organization has and continues to provide educational support to students in the four Bassa speaking counties through the hard work and dedication of the scholarship committee head Mrs. Marie M. Giahyue-Payne.
Responding, the scholarship students expressed gratitude to the entire membership and leadership of UNIBOA for selecting them to benefit, terming the organization’s gesture as ‘welcoming and timely’.
All the beneficiaries, in separate remarks, extended their thanks and appreciation to the president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the United Bassa Organization in the Americas Mrs. Rhoda Fortune-Redd and her team and prayed for God’s continued blessing upon them.
They, however, promised to remain committed and focused on their educational endeavor in order to make their parents and sponsors (UNIBOA) proud and accelerate their path to the future with the acquisition of quality education.
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