Educate West Point - Ewp Liberia

educate west point (ewp) is a liberian and us sister nonprofit giving the children of liberia's largest slum a chance at a brighter future through the power of education. the story behind educate west point (ewp) in 2003, fourteen years of civil wars ended in liberia after wreaking havoc across the country. after years of refuge, many liberians returned home from wherever they were able to flee to with whatever they were able to carry — including ewp founder, musa sheriff, who returned home from guinea together with his mother and nothing in their pockets. after going back to school for only a few years in his home community of west point - liberia’s largest slum located in monrovia - musa was forced to drop out of school in 2006 at the age of 14 to find work to help support his family. just about a decade later, the biggest ebola outbreak in history hit liberia taking the lives of almost 5,000 people and setting the country back to the dire situation it was in long before the civil wa