Our promise is to give each child an opportunity to be the best they ARE meant to be. Our promise is to provide resources to foster learning. Our promise is to create a better Liberia today, tomorrow and forever. Our promise is to be the best citizens for & to our children who are the key to our existence.
We will achieve this through standard education reinforcement, technology, arts and the sciences.
"It takes a village to raise a child" so let each one, teach one!
Ruth's Story
The place it comes from.......
From Monrovia, Liberia to Baltimore, Maryland, Ruth was a champion of education and fought for the betterment of those around her.
She worked her way through a preparatory high school, went on to graduate from Liberia University, and became a full bright scholar who attended New York University (NYU) where she received her Masters in Business Management.
Ms. Ruth while attaining these educational cornerstone, consistently worked with young people pushing the principal that through education one can better their lives. Like W.E.B Du Bois she believe that education was the gateway to opportunity.
Although Ms. Ruth recognized and emphasized the path of education, she was practical in the challenges of this world; many of which she experienced and adopted a duality for formal educational attainment and skills training. Like Booker T Washington, Ms. Ruth equally advocated for both education and skilled work or the trades; stating that both are necessary platforms for success.
Ms. Ruth felt the progress of any people "is is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed" ----Booker T. Washington, and that education whether formal or skilled could mitigate these obstacles and lead to the procurement of success. She advocated for process through both education and skilled trade work and leaves this as a legacy for our future.
The JBZK Foundation was created in honor and furtherance of Ruth's mission.
...........the heart.