MONROVIA, May 31(LINA) -The Country Director of the Liberia Learning Institute and Youth Initiative, David Dean, is calling on all Liberians to volunteer their services in providing academic mentoring to less fortunate children.

He said by providing such mentorship to less fortunate children in society, the volunteer will help enhance literacy, discipline and uprightness in the country.

According to the Liberia News Agency, Dean made the call Friday at his Crown Hill, Broad Street office in an interview with a team of journalists.

He disclosed that as a means of buttressing the national campaign launched by the Ministry of Education recently, he is currently volunteering to teach less fortunate children in several communities, including WestPoint, Slipway, Crown Hill, Broad Street and central Monrovia, who are not in school, to read and write.

Dean said this initiative is necessary because it will enable those less fortunate children to read and write, as well as develop the desire to pursue further education.

Meanwhile, Dean has warned against negatively criticizing the Liberian education system without taking positive steps or advancing concrete suggestions to correct the shortfalls.

He said the Liberian education system will not and cannot be corrected all by itself, noting that Liberians have to rally around authorities of the Education Ministry to make the system what it should be.
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