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Never too old to sit in class and learn, literacy students told

The head of the Liberia Education Trust has told literacy students of the Sean Devereux Children's Education Program (SDCEP) that they are not too old to sit in class and learn. Addressing mostly elderly women on the SDCEP's campus in June during, Robert Sirleaf, son of Liberia's president, E.J. Sirleaf, said: "Let nobody fool you...Education is one thing that once you have it, no one can take it away from you. Don't feel ashamed to learn." LET provides money for literacy projects, school renovation, and academic scholarships. More than 100 women are in the SDCEP's literacy program. Read the article at allAfrica.com.

Posted by Louise Ash on 20 June 2007 in Adult Literacy

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