Erosion Threatens D. Tweh High in New Kru Town

MONROVIA, Feb. 23 (LINA) - The D. Tweh High School in New Kru Town is under threat of being swept away by erosion from the Atlantic Ocean, if nothing is done urgently to save it.

“D. Tweh is the only government high school on Bushrod Island and unless government and international partners act to save this school, the sea could swallow it up in just a few years,” Principal Edwin S. Nagbe told the Liberia News Agency during the week.

The D. Tweh High School was built between 1973 and 1975 by President William R. Tolbert, Jr., to provide educational opportunities for poor young people in New Kru Town and the entire Bushrod Island.

Mr. Nagbe said almost a quarter mile of land separating the school from the ocean has been lost to the sea, leaving the building just 50 yards from the concrete fence built around the school to enclose it from intruders.

According to Mr. Nagbe, the school has a student population of 900, with about 30 percent of this number being girls.

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