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14 Jan - Tall, dark, handsome, and apparently charitable, Hong Kong's highest earning actor Louis Koo was revealed to have actually established more than 80 public schools across rural mainland China to date.According to HK Channel, the actor, who was reported to have built 61 new schools in rural China through his charity foundations back in 2012, was revealed to have funded 24 more educational establishments since then, making it 85 public schools in total.Aside from schools, Louis, who is also an ambassador of UNICEF since 2007, reportedly has also funded several other facilities including clinics and water supplies.His humanitarian work reportedly started after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed over 69,000 people, rendering 5 million others homeless.The actor, who established his own charitable foundation a year after, has been actively involved in rebuilding projects for the last few years.However, Louis has continuously declined to talk about his philanthropic work, responding to questions about it with the same answer, "No comment."

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14 Jan - Tall, dark, handsome, and apparently charitable, Hong Kong's highest earning actor Louis Koo was revealed to have actually established more than 80 public schools across rural mainland China to date.According to HK Channel, the actor, who was reported to have built 61 new schools in rural China through his charity foundations back in 2012, was revealed to have funded 24 more educational establishments since then, making it 85 public schools in total.Aside from schools, Louis, who is also an ambassador of UNICEF since 2007, reportedly has also funded several other facilities including clinics and water supplies.His humanitarian work reportedly started after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed over 69,000 people, rendering 5 million others homeless.The actor, who established his own charitable foundation a year after, has been actively involved in rebuilding projects for the last few years.However, Louis has continuously declined to talk about his philanthropic work, responding to questions about it with the same answer, "No comment."

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14 Jan - Tall, dark, handsome, and apparently charitable, Hong Kong's highest earning actor Louis Koo was revealed to have actually established more than 80 public schools across rural mainland China to date.

According to HK Channel, the actor, who was reported to have built 61 new schools in rural China through his charity foundations back in 2012, was revealed to have funded 24 more educational establishments since then, making it 85 public schools in total.

Aside from schools, Louis, who is also an ambassador of UNICEF since 2007, reportedly has also funded several other facilities including clinics and water supplies.

His humanitarian work reportedly started after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed over 69,000 people, rendering 5 million others homeless.

The actor, who established his own charitable foundation a year after, has been actively involved in rebuilding projects for the last few years.

However, Louis has continuously declined to talk about his philanthropic work, responding to questions about it with the same answer, "No comment."

(Photo source: zimbio.com)

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Louis Koo established 85 public schools to date

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14 Jan - Tall, dark, handsome, and apparently charitable, Hong Kong's highest earning actor Louis Koo was revealed to have actually established more than 80 public schools across rural mainland China to date.

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The Gatsby foundation donated £82m for the construction of the University of Cambridge plant science Sainsbury laboratory and £45m to Cambridge University botanic garden in 2005.

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Charities received record £1.83bn from £1m-plus donors last year

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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge has encouraged donations, research by Coutts and University of Kent finds

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Bill Gates Calls for More Global Education Assessments Data

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https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2018-09-18/bill-gates-calls-for-more-global-education-assessments-data

Bill Gates is rallying behind school quality in developing nations with a push for more assessment data, a new initiative that links the Microsoft co-founder's signature U.S. education priorities with his more prominent global philanthropy work.

This article outlines the way in which Gates wants to improve the quality of education globally through the use of new data systems which will allow easier comparison of students' outcomes. The overall aim is to allow countries to pinpoint where they need to improve their education (e.g. maths or reading). It is questioned, however, if Gates' initiatives overly emphasize the importance of qualitative data achieved via students testing.

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A fascinating article describing the extreme of "bespoke" education. Elon Musk the eccentric and cavalier billionaire designed his own schooling system for his children that has now taken the LA elite by storm. Due to Elon's personal beliefs subjects like Music and Sports are not taught at all with the focus being put on Maths, Engineering and Ethics.

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In a corner of SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, a small, secretive group called Ad Astra is hard at work. These are not the company's usual rocket scientists. At the direction of Elon Musk, they are tackling ambitious projects involving flamethrowers, robots, nuclear politics, and defeating evil AIs.

Those at Ad Astra still find time for a quick game of dodgeball at lunch, however, because the average age within this group is just 10 years old.

Ad Astra encompasses students, not employees. For the past four years, this experimental non-profit school has been quietly educating Musk's sons, the children of select SpaceX employees, and a few high-achievers from nearby Los Angeles. It started back in 2014, when Musk pulled his five young sons out of one of Los Angeles' most prestigious private schools for gifted children. Hiring one of his sons' teachers, the CEO founded Ad Astra to "exceed traditional school metrics on all relevant subject matter through unique project-based learning experiences," according to a previously unreported document filed with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

"I just didn't see that the regular schools were doing the things that I thought should be done," he told a Chinese TV station in 2015. "So I thought, well let's see what we can do. Maybe creating a school will be better."

In an atmosphere closer to a venture capital incubator than a traditional school, today's Ad Astra students undertake challenging technical projects, trade using their own currency, and can opt out of subjects they don't enjoy. Children from 7 to 14 years old work together in teams, with few formal assessments and no grades handed out.

Ad Astra's principal hopes that the school will revolutionize education in the same way Tesla has disrupted transportation, and SpaceX the rocket industry. But as Musk's sons near graduation age, the future of Ad Astra is unclear. Will Musk maintain interest in the school once his children move on? And even if he does, can a school of fewer than 40 students ever be anything more than a high-tech crèche for already-privileged children?

The school's makeup

Ad Astra has a lower profile than most start-ups in stealth mode. Its website is just a logo and an email address, and the school does not market itself to parents. Musk himself has said virtually nothing about Ad Astra, and both SpaceX and Ad Astra declined our requests for comment. Currently, the only glimpses of Ad Astra available to outsiders come from a 2017 webinar interview with the school's principal (captured in an unlisted YouTube video) and recent public filings like the IRS document referenced above.

Despite this mystique, demand among families in Los Angeles is astronomical, says Christina Simon, author of Beyond the Brochure, a guide to private elementary schools in the city. "There are people who could afford any of the private schools in LA but want that school in particular," she says. "It's very much about Elon Musk and who he is."

The last admissions cycle in 2017 saw up to 400 families visit in the hope of securing one of just a dozen open spots.

In December, an online application form purportedly for Ad Astra starting popping up in Los Angeles parenting forums and Facebook groups. The form asked for details of grades, test scores, and personal information about families, but it had no affiliation or contact listed.

"I talked to several parents who were going to take a chance and apply, even though it was impossible to verify that it was an Ad Astra application," says Simon. "That's the level of interest in this school. I cannot imagine that happening with any other school, public or private."

The school is even mysterious within SpaceX, Musk's rocket company that houses Ad Astra on its campus in the industrial neighborhood of Hawthorne. About half Ad Astra's students are children of SpaceX employees, and the school is touted during recruiting, says Simon. "I've heard from various SpaceX families that they have tried and failed to get information about the school, even though they were told it was a benefit during the interview," she says.

The lucky few who succeed in applying, pass a reasoning test, and are admitted ultimately enter a school quite unlike any other. For a start, Ad Astra's location inside a working company is unconventional to say the least. "We started with eight kids in a really small conference room with transparent walls," says Joshua Dahn, head of the school, speaking in conversation with entrepreneur Peter Diamandis last year. "Engineers [would] always come drop by and peek on it."

That first year, Musk's children accounted for nearly two thirds of the student body. "It was really small," remembers Dahn. "Especially when five [students] from the same family... go on vacation and you have three kids [left]."

It is not unusual for parents to have a grassroots effort to build their own school, according to Nancy Hertzog, an educational psychology professor at University of Washington and an expert in gifted education. "But money talks in terms of how that school is directed and supported," she says. "The worry would be, are these schools preventing kids from other populations getting in? Are there strict test scores, and can they support kids with disabilities?"

A non-discrimination policy quietly published in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 stated that Ad Astra does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, but the document made no mention of disabilities.

Although Ad Astra now has dedicated classrooms and a chemistry lab at SpaceX, its start-up chic still includes whiteboard walls, a Mac laptop for every student, and food trucks for after-school sessions. These, like everything else at school including tuition, are paid for by Elon Musk. He gave Ad Astra $475,000 in both 2014 and 2015, according to the IRS document, and likely more in recent years as the school grew to 31 students.

"[Elon] is extraordinarily generous," says Dahn. "And it allows us to take any kid that sort of fits... We don't have unlimited resources but we have more resources than a traditional school."
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First space, then auto-now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education

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In a corner of SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, a small, secretive group called Ad Astra is hard at work. These are not the company's usual rocket scientists. At the direction of Elon Musk, they are tackling ambitious projects involving flamethrowers, robots, nuclear politics, and defeating evil AIs.

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Venture capitalist gives £75m for Oxford's poorest students

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Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman, fund £11,000 scholarships to help students from low-income families .

It is common for altruistic billionaires to make their mark in brick, steel and glass on a university campus or to sponsor one of the more fashionable branches of research, but Michael Moritz will leave a legacy in flesh and blood.

The venture capitalist, born in Wales and living in California, announced the biggest philanthropic gift for undergraduate financial support in European history on Wednesday. A £75m gift from the multimillionaire investor and his wife, the novelist Harriet Heyman, will fund £11,000 scholarships for the poorest 10% of Oxford students.

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Venture capitalist gives £75m for Oxford's poorest students

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Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman, fund £11,000 scholarships to help students from low-income families

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Accreditation Revoked of One of Russia's Best (and Private) Universities - news of June 2018

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Accreditation Revoked of One of Russia's Best (and Private) Universities - news of June 2018

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The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (founded in 1995 by British sociologist Teodor Shanin) offering top-quality Master’s programs in Social Sciences and Humanities together with a few Western European universities, was stripped of the right to issue state-recognized diplomas in June 2018. The reason for that was highly technical - in the report it was stated there was some required equipment missing or the required number of meters per student wasn't observed. This is largely seen as a yet another attack against freedom in Russia - especially because this college isn't state-run.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/06/22/regulators-have-revoked-their-accreditation-of-the-moscow-school-of-social-and-economic-sciences-one-of-russia-s-last-major-private-colleges
A similar case (the [private] European University in St Petersburg lost its accreditation this spring but was granted it back in August 2018 - https://themoscowtimes.com/news/license-restored-european-university-st-petersburg-62501).

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Jack Ma Commits $45 Million to Future Teachers in Rural China

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Jack Ma Commits $45 Million to Future Teachers in Rural China

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The Jack Ma Foundation has announced a ten-year, 300 million yuan ($45 million) commitment in support of future teachers in rural areas of China.
The Rural Pre-Service Teacher Initiative will provide select graduates of teacher-training universities in Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, and Jiling provinces who teach in rural schools with grants of 100,000 yuan ($15,110) over five years as well as training support. An initial investment of 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) in the inaugural cohort of a hundred recipients will be initiated in January, with the pool of participating schools and grant amounts expected to grow annually thereafter. The only way to improve rural education, said Ma, a co-founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is to encourage top graduates from teacher-training programs in China to become educators in rural villages and towns, where an entire generation of teachers is aging out of the profession.

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The Jack Ma Foundation has announced a ten-year, 300 million yuan ($45 million) commitment in support of future teachers in rural areas of China.

The Rural Pre-Service Teacher Initiative will provide select graduates of teacher-training universities in Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, and Jiling provinces who teach in rural schools with grants of 100,000 yuan ($15,110) over five years as well as training support. An initial investment of 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) in the inaugural cohort of a hundred recipients will be initiated in January, with the pool of participating schools and grant amounts expected to grow annually thereafter. The only way to improve rural education, said Ma, a co-founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is to encourage top graduates from teacher-training programs in China to become educators in rural villages and towns, where an entire generation of teachers is aging out of the profession.

A 2015 study by Beijing Normal University found that low salary - averaging 2,500 yuan ($378) a month - and a feeling of isolation were the biggest hurdles in retaining young teachers in rural schools. As part of the initiative, the foundation will leverage Alibaba technology to create an online community where new rural teachers and teachers-in-training can ask questions and get answers from top-tier teachers in other parts of the country.

Ma, who was an English teacher before he founded Alibaba, also launched two programs for working teachers and headmasters in remote areas in recent years. "Wherever the problem is, that's where opportunity lies," said Ma. "Rural education may be the best place to see a breakthrough in China's education."

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Jack Ma Commits $45 Million to Future Teachers in Rural China

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The Jack Ma Foundation has announced a ten-year, 300 million yuan ($45 million) commitment in support of future teachers in rural areas of China. The Rural Pre-Service Teacher Initiative will provide select graduates of teacher-training universities in Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, and Jiling provinces who teach in rural schools with grants of 100,000 yuan ($15,110) over five years as well as training support.

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Attacks on scholars, students, staff, and their institutions are continuing to occur with alarming frequency around the world, according to the 2018 Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project’s latest annual report, released on 23 October.The list of 294 attacks in the year to 31 August 2018 includes 77 deaths through killings, acts of violence or disappearances, 88 imprisonments, 60 prosecutions, 22 losses of position, 15 travel restrictions and 30 other incidents.These attacks are carried out by both state and non-state actors, in open and closed societies, using a range of methods. Ultimately, these attacks “not only harm the individuals and institutions directly targeted; they undermine entire higher education systems and shrink everyone’s space to think, question and share ideas freely and safely”, the report says.Through its Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, Scholars at Risk (SAR) responds to these attacks by identifying and tracking key incidents, with the aim of protecting vulnerable individuals, raising awareness, encouraging accountability, and promoting dialogue and understanding that can help prevent future threats. 

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Attacks on scholars, students, staff, and their institutions are continuing to occur with alarming frequency around the world, according to the 2018 Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project’s latest annual report, released on 23 October.The list of 294 attacks in the year to 31 August 2018 includes 77 deaths through killings, acts of violence or disappearances, 88 imprisonments, 60 prosecutions, 22 losses of position, 15 travel restrictions and 30 other incidents.These attacks are carried out by both state and non-state actors, in open and closed societies, using a range of methods. Ultimately, these attacks “not only harm the individuals and institutions directly targeted; they undermine entire higher education systems and shrink everyone’s space to think, question and share ideas freely and safely”, the report says.Through its Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, Scholars at Risk (SAR) responds to these attacks by identifying and tracking key incidents, with the aim of protecting vulnerable individuals, raising awareness, encouraging accountability, and promoting dialogue and understanding that can help prevent future threats. 

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Today, the Foundation is worth an estimated HK$3bn, but retains its guiding principles, with a focus on programmes that are able to develop a sustainable model for education and school improvement.
He believed that the future of China lies in education and this became the founding value of the Foundation.
So far, he has funded 93 universities, 166 secondary schools, 44 primary schools, 20 professional schools and kindergartens, and more than 1,800 library rooms of rural schools in China.
http://philanthropy.coutts.com/ru/reports/2014/hong-kong/case-studies/tin-ka-ping-foundation.html
"In addition to making donations to schools, which are our partners, we run and fund conferences, workshops and training courses to improve teaching skills. Sometimes we have adapted projects and methodologies from Hong Kong and Taiwan and piloted them in schools across China. This helps improve teachers’ and principals’ training and their individual quality, which has had a significant impact on the overall quality of education."

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City mourns as 'great educator' Tin Ka-ping dies aged 99

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From humble beginnings on the mainland, businessman became a philanthropist who donated billions of dollars in support of education, culture and social welfare

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When good intentions on non-state actors go wrong, the case with Katie Meyler's More than Me Foundation in Liberia 

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When good intentions on non-state actors go wrong, the case with Katie Meyler's More than Me Foundation in Liberia 

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Katie Meyler found the More Than Me Foundation, an American NGO providing free education for poor children from slum communities and underage sex workers.  She had raised at least 8 million dollars from billionaire American philanthropists. Unfortunately, one of her trusted aides began serially exploiting the days. He became a sexual predator for a long time. It seems the organization was covering up to save its image. A year long journalistic investigation uncovered disturbing trends of the foundation and governmental cover-up even at the court level. The perpetrator has since died reportedly of HIV/🤬, but the case has now caught public attention, with many calling for the closure of the school and serious penalty for More than Me. However, the parents and students of the school say no. How will their children attend school without More than Me?
A few more links on the story:
1.  More Than Me CEO temporarily resigns amid Liberia 🤬 scandal - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45869800
2. MTM Parents, Students Against School's Closure - Liberian Daily Observer
https://www.liberianobserver.com/news/mtm-parents-students-against-schools-closure/

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MONROVIA - A major investigation by US media non-profit ProPublica, has unveiled widespread sexual abuse at More Than Me (MTM), the US-charity that runs 19 schools in Liberia. The story alleges the NGO head Katie Meyler and the board of MTM went to great lengths to cover up the scandal. It also reports that More Than Me and government officials tried to influence the trial of the accused rapist.
Report by Bettie Johnson Mbayo, James Harding Giahyue and Tecee Boley
MTM was founded in 2009 by Katie Meyler to help get girls from the street to school, but this yearlong investigation conducted in collaboration with Time Magazine, revealed that the girls were raped from the onset. The man was the originally described as the charity's co-founder, an ex-combatant named Macintosh Johnson, with whom Meyler was having a sexual relationship.

Soon after the founding, according to witnesses and court documents revealed in the report, Johnson began raping girls as young as ten. Admissions from Meyler herself said the number of girls who were raped at the More Than Me academy could have been a quarter of the school, "everyone over the age of 11."

Some of the girls became pregnant. Johnson threatened if they didn't get rid of the pregnancy or if they told anyone of the abuse, he would take them off scholarship at the school. He even threatened to kill some.

More Than Me has raised more than $8m in funding, nearly $600,000 of that from the US government. Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf showered praise on Meyler and presided over the opening of the More Than Me Academy in 2013. She gave Meyler the building for free and said her wish was, "to expand Katie Meyler's initiative to as many communities as possible."

President Sirleaf got that wish in 2016-2017 as MTM was given control of 19 schools in Liberia, educating 4,000 students. MTM's goal is to run 500 schools by 2021, educating half a million students. Meyler appeared with George Werner, the education minister, in international education forums advocating the education system be given over to the private sector. The message led eventually to the deal with Bridge International.

Almost forgotten by then was the scandal of sexual abuse. The accused rapist, Johnson, went on trial just as Ebola hit West Point. Meyler threw herself into support for the people during the epidemic, visiting sick patients, providing an ambulance and other care. She was named one of Time magazine's People of the Year. The trial, in which 10 girls testified against him, went almost unnoticed.

The ProPublica report posts grave questions about the actions John Gabriel, the director of Liberia's Sexual and Gender-Based Violence unit. He did not call key witnesses in the trial, including the American MTM staffer who reported the case to police, to testify. The ProPublica reporting suggests the prosecution tried to influence the case to find Johnson guilty. Indeed jurors claimed they were paid bribes to find Johnson guilty. Johnson's defense lawyer played on all of this. The jury told ProPublica they believed the case was rigged against Johnson. Their verdict was a hung jury.

Later Gabriel appeared to bully witnesses who spoke to ProPublica into withdrawing accusations against MTM. He sent letters of praise for MTM to the editors at ProPublica as part of an MTM campaign that tried to discredit the ProPublica journalists Fin Young and Kathleen Flynn.

When contacted late Thursday night Gabriel said he had not seen the report. He asked for the link to be sent to him and promised to respond Friday. (He did not respond Friday). Minister for Justice Musah Dean did not respond to a WhatsApp text or answer a call.

Before he could face trial again Johnson died of Aids. Several of the girls who testified also tested positive for HIV. The baby of one sick girl had died of an illness that could have been Aids. More Than Me did not test the rest of the girls in the school. Meyler and MTM President Saul Garlick said it wasn't the charity's job to check Johnson's medical record. "Let me be super clear," said Garlick. "It's not my business what he died of. I have no idea."

In a long statement issued on the More Than Me website today the organization apologized.

"We are deeply sorry: When we started this work, we believed that our energy and passion for improving girls' lives was enough to create lasting change. We were ambitious but also naïve," the statement reads.

"We are deeply saddened and regret that we were underprepared for the magnitude of the challenges we would face when we opened More Than Me Academy in 2013. We want to apologize to the brave girls who came forward, as well as those who potentially may not have, for the pain they have experienced from Johnson's heinous actions. We stand by the girls and young women affected and we are here for them. We continue to support them with scholarships to school, healthcare, counseling, and monthly stipends to pursue their dreams."

Front Page Africa reached out for comment from the key government ministries that oversee More Than Me's operations in the country. Public Relations Officers from the Finance and Planning Ministry, which is in charge of accrediting NGOs in the country, asked for a formal letter before they would respond. Minister Tweah's phone was off until deadline. A senior analyst at the ministry said More Than Me's accreditation had expired in April this year but he would not provide evidence or go on the record to confirm this claim.

Education Minister Ansu Sonii told our reporter: "I have not read it (the report). Once it involves the partnership school and we find out the effect it has on our program, we will call a press conference."

Our reporter contacted Ministry of Gender Social Children Protection Minister Williametta Piso Saydee Tarr on WhatsApp. The app showed the message had been read but the minister did not respond by deadline.

Iris Martor, the nurse who first discovered the abuse and who resigned last year, told ProPublica MTM didn't listen to its staff and Katie didn't understand Liberia. "They think we're all stupid people with little or no education, and our system is fragile, and they can get away with things because their skin is white."

Former board member Chid Liberty told ProPublica, MTM had "played a significant role in a big institutional crime against these girls... I think that if I started a school today in Brooklyn and this happened in Brooklyn, there is no way that they would say: 'Well, this Liberian guy was just trying to help. It's okay." Liberty would like to see accountability, including for himself.

"Anywhere else in the world, everybody involved would be in some way held to account."

Lakshmi Moore, Country Director for Action Aid, condemned More Than Me's actions.

"It's appalling that an organization that built its foundation and fundraising appeal on responding to the sexual abuse and exploitation would somehow naively not consider the power dynamics of its role as a "provider" and willfully neglect its responsibility to ensure that systems and mechanisms were in place to prevent and protect these girls from abuse. MTM festered an environment that enabled the very abuse they claimed to raise money to address and protect girls from. Access to education is not just about getting girls in schools but making sure the challenges that girls face before schools and during schools are addressed. The history of abuse and sexual violence in schools is not new so why did MTM ignore this?"

Moore said former Education Minister George Werner and other Sirleaf administration officials have questions to answer over the MTM scandal. Werner did not respond to a reporter's calls or texts. FPA is also chasing former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who is believed to be traveling in the USA.

"We are concerned about what actions were taken since then to prevent this systemic neglect given the role MTM plays in the PSL program now rebranded as LEAP," said Moore. "How much did all actors, from the Ministry of Education to the private providers and funders know or care to know in 2016 when they awarded MYM 6 schools? And most importantly what actions will be taken against MTM now?"

Moore challenged the Weah government to step in. "If this government cares about girls' education, it needs to set precedent to ensure that schools do not become playground for predators and that we do not reward those who enable predators. Which side is the government on?"

Erica Krutu Davies whose family has been in a court case with MTM over ownership of the property also celebrated the revelations.

"They should expose her for the person that she says she is and she's not," said Erica Krutu Davies, whose family has been involved in a case in court with MTM for eight years over the property that the charity occupies in Monrovia.

"I am a very happy person but I want the aftereffects to be a solution. I want for them to recognize the people that are coming in the country that do not have the heart for the country, that take advantage of our children, take advantage of our system, take advantage of our people."
This story was a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the West Africa Justice Reporting Project.

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Sex Abuse Scandal & Cover-up at US NGO, Liberian Gov't Slow to React

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YouTube will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content on the platform, the company has announced.

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YouTube will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content on the platform, the company has announced.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-45940777

The company says its new fund will make the platform "better for educators and learners".

As part of the scheme, YouTube will launch a new Learning channel, which will showcase its own original programmes and those made by independent creators.

Organisations such as Goodwill and Year Up will help curate the channel and put together playlists of educational content.

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Gordon Brown launches $10bn global funding for schools

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Gordon Brown launches $10bn global funding for schools

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This is an initiative fronted by Gordon Brown, in his capacity as Special Envoy of Global Education at the UN to input $10 billion into the global education crisis by 2030. The money will be in the form of $2 billion in grants and $8 billion in loans to developing countries in a rate that they can afford to pay back. According to the BBC article and an article written by Gordon Brown there are currently 260 million children internationally who do not have access to basic education and at the current rate of progress 1 in 4 children enter adulthood without the skills to enter into any form of workforce.

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Gordon Brown is launching a $10bn (£7.4bn) scheme to widen access to education in some of the world's poorest countries.

The UN global education envoy and ex-UK prime minister wants donor countries to act as guarantors on low-cost lending for projects.

The fund aims to tackle the problem of 260 million children without schools.

Mr Brown warned the UN in New York that such gaps would have "catastrophic consequences".

The International Finance Facility for Education, backed by the UN and World Bank, aims to provide $10bn worth of loans and grants to allow poorer countries to build schools and hire teachers.

'Civil rights struggle'

The funding would create places for an initial 20 million children currently out of school.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was "critical" to get international support for the funding initiative.

Mr Brown is in contact with representatives of 20 countries which he hopes will support this project.

He wants them to provide financial guarantees for loans for education, in the way that financing was used for mass immunisation schemes.

The ambition, says the former prime minister, is to have the first generation in history in which all young people have a chance to go to school.

Access to education, he says, is the "civil rights struggle of our time".

The lack of school places has appeared to be an "intractable problem", but he says that mobilising such funding would provide low-income countries, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, with a way of making rapid progress.

Current aid levels only provided a fraction of what was needed - when education was "vital to economic success and individual potential".

"We can't get away from the fact that there's an education crisis. This divide has catastrophic consequences," said Mr Brown.

"Instead of being in school, children will be trapped as labourers, brides, soldiers, and victims of trafficking.

"Aspiring doctors, lawyers, teachers, and innovators of tomorrow will never realise their talents - this is a loss we cannot afford."

Mr Guterres said it was not possible to accept so many children "failing to learn even the most basic skills".

"In the coming decade, some one billion young people will enter the workforce. They all need education so that they can help build a world of peace, prosperity, dignity, and opportunity for all."

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Gordon Brown launches global schools fund

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Gordon Brown is launching a $10bn (£7.4bn) scheme to widen access to education in some of the world's poorest countries. The UN global education envoy and ex-UK prime minister wants donor countries to act as guarantors on low-cost lending for projects. The fund aims to tackle the problem of 260 million children without schools.

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Michelle Obama Announces Global Girls Alliance to Support Adolescent Girls Education Around the World

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Michelle Obama Announces Global Girls Alliance to Support Adolescent Girls Education Around the World

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https://www.obama.org/updates/michelle-obama-announces-global-girls-alliance/
This October,Obama foundation has announced a new initiative to empower adolescent girls around the world through education.

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I hope this is relevant.  It is a current campaign through instagram,  in America. Celebrities are set challenges by each other to choose top 10 teachers. The celebrity then campaigns for their followers to pay for school items. These are listed by one of the teacher's on amazon. (all items are sent to the school directly)