US Diplomat to Use Life’s Experience to Inspire NEW Hope Academy StudentsMs. Kari Jaksa, Senior Political Officer, United States Embassy, MonroviaMonrovia – The Senior Political Officer of the United States Embassy near Monrovia will on Thursday, April 18, 2019, serve as a Guest Speaker at program marking the observance of the 24th Gala Anniversary of the New Hope Academy, a subsidiary education pilot project of the Better Future Foundation (BFF). Before joining the United States Foreign Service, Ms. Jaksa served as a Fulbright-Hays Swahili Scholar in Arusha, Tanzania. She is the co-editor of Outsmarting Apartheid: An Oral History of South Africa’s Cultural and Educational Exchange with the United States, 1960-1999. According to BFF’s Founder, Augustine Arkoi, NHA provides affordable learning opportunity to all, and scholarships particularly for orphans and disadvantaged out of school youth in Jacob Town and its environs. The release added that girls’ education, retention in school, leadership, and issues of their sexual reproductive health are at the core of BFF’s programs and services being offered at the New Hope Academy.

Source: Front Page Africa April 18, 2019 00:43 UTC