Monrovia – The Salvation Army School System covering Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Command has launched an educational eLearning or online learning App for its students.
The App, called Weeglo Inc, will make learning easier for students of the Salvation Army School System in six of the fifteen counties of Liberia, according to the Command’s Head of Mission, Lt. Col. Samuel Mkami.
Speaking at the launch of the app at the Command’s headquarters in Monrovia on Tuesday, Lt. Colonel Mkami disclosed that the discussion to have the electronic learning facilities for students started back in 2018 when he was appointed as head of mission of the Salvation Army’s Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Command.
Speaking further, he challenged students, teachers, and parents to use the website always – whether they are sitting home, walking along the road, or in school. He added that it will boost their learning and teaching capacities.
The website, he added is intended to promote the reading abilities of students in Liberia as reading is the bedrock of the child’s education development.
He noted that studies have shown that Africans do not read as compared to people from other continents and it was about time to change that.
Also speaking, the Director of the Salvation Army School System, David Massaquoi, revealed that the app is built in a special way that enables students to access their lessons without using data, which is less expensive to use.
Mr. Massaquoi explained that the app was developed by an alumnus of the William Booth High school, Thomas Guwor, who is currently based in the United States. He said Guwor decided to assist “his brothers and sisters” attending the Salvation Army School System in Liberia.
Making further clarification, he stressed that when the app is downloaded from the Google play store, there is no need to be connected to the internet to access notes, past questions from the West African Examination Council and other related materials.
He said the school system is planning to equip the app with free library and other learning materials that will enable students to get all the materials needed to improve their learning.
The Principal of William Booth High School, Mr. Siapha Crawford, on behalf of the principals of the Salvation Army School System lauded the leaders of Salvation Army Liberia Command for making learning easier for its students.
Mr. Crawford praised the Salvation Army School System for its contribution towards Liberia’s growth by ‘producing great people’ in the Liberian Society and the world at large.
At the same time, representatives of the teachers and Students, Archie Bono and student Moses Flomo, in separate remarks, thanked the school system for the eLearning program.
The program marking the official launch of the eLearning program brought together the leadership of the Command, the Education Secretariat staff, principals, teachers and students of the various Salvation Army Schools in Liberia.
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