A delegation, headed by the Principal of the Booker T. Washington High School in Houston, Texas, Dr. Carlos Philips, is in Liberia as guests of the Booker Washington Institute (BWI), in Kakata, Margibi County.
The mission is here to assess situation at BWI for the establishment of an inter-school collaboration and partnership between the two institutions for various interventions, including a possible staff and students exchange program.
The US team, which flew in on Sunday, began the assessment of conditions and facilities on the BWI campus on Monday.
BWI’s newly appointed and first-ever female Principal, Dr. Nancy T. Freeman, and her staff were delighted to receive the US educational delegation on the campus of Liberia’s oldest technical high school.
Dr. Philips and delegation will acquaint themselves with progress and challenges at the institution and document the historicity of the formation of BWI.
A release quotes the Representative of the Chair Ex-Officio of the Board of BWI, Mr. Jonathan Paye-Layleh, as saying the two-person US delegation will meet with President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Wednesday to appreciate him and explain their mission and plan to be of help to BWI.
The connection with the US institution was made possible through the initiative of Madam Louise McMillan Siaway, who is now a member of the BWI Board of Governors.
BWI was set up in 1929 during the administration of President Charles D. B. King to train middle-level technicians for the task of nation building.
The first funding to establish BWI came from a US philanthropic foundation, and the school’s first principal, James Longstreet Sibily, was an American who died from yellow fever and was interred on the campus, in accordance with his will.
June 29 this year is BWI’s ninety-fifth (95th) founding anniversary.
