Liberian host communities support education for Ivorian refugee children

In a nation still recovering from a ruinous civil war – a place where many people have no access to electricity, safe water or health care – hundreds of communities have opened their doors to refugees from neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. Eight months after a political crisis erupted in that country, more than 150,000 Ivorians remain in Liberia. Most of them are being hosted by families in remote villages dotting the Liberia-Côte d’Ivoire border.
At the Barker C. Gaye public school in one border community, Zleh Town, Liberian students are sharing their playgrounds and their classrooms with Ivorian refugees like Sophie (not her real name), 13.