France has offered scholarships to six instructors of the University of Liberia in July, demonstrating its commitment to help the country largely destroyed by six years of war, LINA reported quoting French Ambassador Francis Lott.
The ambassador, resident in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, told reporters in Monrovia on Monday that France had sponsored 20 Liberian teachers who completed a two-month training programme in Abidjan. He said France would also train Liberian journalists.
France, he added, had given US $500,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Liberia, through the World Food Programme, for the purchase of maize meal which is due for delivery to the Liberian government. Lott said France had also identified health projects in Liberia’s Sinoe and Grand Gedeh counties, for funding. Much of Liberia’s infrastructure was destroyed in a war started by its present leader, President Charles Taylor.
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