LTRU-USA completes Payment of Scholarship Funds

Members of the Logan Town Re-Union (LTRU) based in the United States of America (USA) have carried on 50% payment of their organization’s scholarship fund program for the 2023/2024 academy year for 20 high school students that are based in the Logan Town Communities on the Bushrod Island in Monrovia, Liberia.

It can be recalled that Members of the LTRU-USA based in the USA in 2023 began the payment of scholarship funds for students that are based in the Logan Town Communities on the Bushrod Island in Monrovia and the first 20 high school students of five high schools in the Logan Town Communities benefited from the scholarship funds.

The five schools, which students benefited from LTRU scholarship funds are Elder John Massey, Sylvia Broderick, Joanna Antoe, St. Edward Catholic and St. Matthew United Methodist and students of the same five schools, are the beneficiaries of the LTRU 2023/2024 scholarship program. 

The representative of LTRU-USA in Liberia acknowledged that through the leadership of the organization new president Natasha Worjloh, former Logan Town residents and partners back home, decided to extend their scholarship program to deserving high school students and high schools within the Logan Town communities because the scholarship is designed to help ease the financial hardship face by family members struggling to pay for them.

Mr. Momolu John Dukuly stressed that the scholarship program is a good will gesture from Liberians that once live in the Logan Town communities on the Bushrod Island but now live in the United States of America as their own contributions to help strengthen the learning process of high school students that are attending the community base schools.

Mr. Dukuly highlighted that the requirements for the scholarship program are that each students maintains an average grade points of 8o% or above per period or per semester while ensuring that he or she has a good moral conduct throughout the semester and that each of the five schools would send copies of each student grades per marking period to the organization office for monitoring and evaluating purposes.

Said Mr. Dukuly: “LTRU-USA guarantees that as long as your students meet the requirements set forth by our scholarship program of 2023/2024 attached, we will provide payments of their tuition's at the start of every academy year however, for the first year of our program, we made payment of tuition's per semester and evaluate students on a periodic basic for grades and conducts and we will informed you of changes within our programs as determined by our education committee and we are going to follow the criteria for the ongoing school year. The organization emphasized.”

He acknowledged that through the leadership of the LTRU-USA new president Natasha Worjloh, former Logan Town residents and partners back home, would like to extend their scholarship program to deserving high school students and high schools within the Logan Town communities because the scholarship is designed to help ease the financial hardship face by family members struggling to pay for their children education and that every academy year, the scholarship is renewable based on set criteria.                           

Presenting the LTRU-USA first semester payment of the 2023/2024 scholarship funds to officials of the five schools, Mr. Dukuly thanked them and parents of students who benefited from the 2022/2023 scholarship funds for the professional manner in which they all worked in line with their students which he added helped them scored the needed grade points for the scholarship standard which he described as very encouraging.

He called on the parents of the students who are part of the 2023/2024 scholarship funds to always make sure their children should continue to score the needed graded points if they are to remain on the scholarship program and also thanked the students to work in line with the scholarship program and wished them success as they struggle to maintain their status on the scholarship program.

The schools principals paid tributes to members of the LTRU USA for the scholarship opportunity they have established for students of the Logan Town communities and hoped that others would follow their good examples.

Joanna Antoe and Sylvia Broderick principals who spooked on behalf of the four schools believed that the scholarship been provided by members of the LTRU-USA had opened competitions among students that benefited from it and described it as very encouraging and hoped that students who are to benefit from the 2023/2024 scholarship funds will follow the good examples of the 12th graders that scored the needed grade points which helped them completed their high school studies.

The LTRU-USA has also completed over five hand pumps projects throughout the Logan Town communities and is now negotiating for land space to build reading computerized learning center to help improve the children learning process.