A White House staffer took matters into her own hands after visiting a struggling African primary school during a trip with first lady Melania Trump. White House specialty media director Carolina Hurley helped raise over $12,600 for an indoor classroom in the Chipala Primary School in Lilongwe, Malawi, after she saw the school during the first lady's October 2018 trip. Hurley accompanied Trump on her four-country visit to Africa, which included a tour of several outdoor classrooms at the Malawi school. The school had only 77 teachers -- a ratio of 118 children to 1 teacher -- with up to 250 students in each classroom. MELANIA TRUMP VISITS SCHOOL IN MALAWI, PART OF AFRICA TOUR"I saw these children who sit outside all day because there wasn't enough room for them to learn inside," Hurley told Fox News.

Source: Fox News January 02, 2020 22:52 UTC