SANNIQUELLIE, Nimba County – American lawyer and philanthropist Paul Mandell, accompanied by his 17-year-old daughter Kate Mandell, has renewed his dedication to schooling in Liberia with a contemporary donation of faculty provides and a US$5,000 grant to St. Mary’s Excessive Faculty in Sanniquellie.
The most recent contribution follows Mandell’s go to to Liberia final November, throughout which he donated academic supplies to the identical establishment. Returning this week together with his daughter, the Mandell household offered extra provides—together with books, pads, pencils, digital studying video games, and soccer balls—to college students and directors.
Addressing the scholars, Kate Mandell, a junior at Walt Whitman Excessive Faculty in Bethesda, Maryland, mentioned she was impressed to go to Liberia after seeing pictures and movies her father shared from his earlier journey.
“I hoped to see the varsity for myself and meet the scholars,” she instructed the gathering, expressing pleasure that her father was capable of find time for the journey. She added that she appears to be like ahead to returning to Liberia and persevering with her reference to St. Mary’s.
Past the donated supplies, the Mandell household introduced a US$5,000 grant to help the varsity’s applications and improvement initiatives.
Paul Mandell, a graduate of Yale Regulation Faculty, can also be identified in Liberia’s authorized group for his function in serving to to ascertain the Liberia Faculty of Regulation (LSL)—the nation’s second regulation faculty. For greater than 70 years, the government-run regulation faculty on the College of Liberia was the nation’s solely authorized coaching establishment.
Mandell mentioned his motivation for supporting the founding of LSL stemmed from his perception that well-trained legal professionals are important to strengthening the rule of regulation, selling democratic governance, and fostering inclusive improvement in societies like Liberia.
The donation ceremony drew notable figures related to each St. Mary’s and the Liberia Faculty of Regulation. Retired Chief Justice Francis S. Korkpor, Sr., an alumnus of St. Mary’s and a fellow member of the LSL Board of Trustees, thanked the Mandell household for supporting his alma mater.
St. Mary’s Principal Jericho Dorwazia additionally expressed gratitude for what he described because the Mandell household’s continued dedication to the varsity’s progress.
Additionally current was Kwame Clement, President of the Liberia Faculty of Regulation, who beforehand practiced regulation alongside Mandell in the US.
For college kids at St. Mary’s, the go to was greater than a donation—it was a reminder of the facility of world partnerships and the affect of sustained help for schooling in rural Liberia.
