Nearly 50 instructors at the Mohammed BIN Bakhit Arabic and English Senior High School in the Caldwell Community have benefitted from a huge donation.
The Sheikh Mohammed Salim Bakhit and Family, sponsor of the Mohammed Salim Bin Bakhit Islamic Institute from Dubai the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have identified with Teachers.
The donation which included100 bags of 25kg rice, huge amount of undisclosed cash and other assorted items came from the administration of the institution.
The gesture is a demonstration of appreciations to teachers for job well done over years and a way of identifying with them during the end of the Ramadan this year in Liberia.
Speaking at the ceremony marking the donation, the institution’s administrative consultant, Mohammed Wai, narrated that his institution remains one of the fastest growing institutions in the country because of the proficient and effective teaching services provided by the instructors.
He said, Mohammed BIN Bakhit was established as an institution on the basis of Islamic development education which is to create equitable opportunity for students in diversified stages so that they understand the Islamic doctrine as well as disciplines in their perspective.
Wai explained that the school which was established in 2006 with funding from Mr. Mohammed Bin Bakhit which the school is named in honored and was founded with an objective of providing education for Islamic children in Liberia, adding; “Mohammed BIN Bakhit is the only school in Liberia that always sent out at least one of its graduates to the Dubai International Quranic competition in the world since 2013.”
Wai stated further, “This year, we sent Mamadou P. Balde and he ranked 11 out of over the 150 participants worldwide in the competition,”
According to consultant Wai, the Mohammed BIN Bakhit Islamic school is not only offering education to Muslim students as many would think, but is also opened to non-Muslims as he read a statistics that recorded over 125 non-Muslims in the last academic year enrollment.
“The enrollment of 2020/2021 predicts that the school has little over 1,000 students and of this figure, 875 of them are Muslims representing 87.5%, while 125 are non-Muslims representing 12.5%,” he cited.
Mohammed Wai further intimated that though the is high percentage of students, Muslims by religion, the greatest challenge to the school remains financial as many of the students are from what he term as very poor family backgrounds.
