Ramsey N Singbeh Jr
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The Taongi National University or TNU has extended its student loan and free medical outreach programs to Sannoyea District in Lower Bong County. The Taongi National University is situated in Salala City, Lower Bong County and it is also approved by the National Commission on Higher Education in Liberia to offer and award bachelor’s degree.
The provost of the university, Dr Mike M. Sonpon led a team to Sannoyea District on Friday February 28, 2025 in continuation of the extension of the free medical outreach activities and the student loan program message.
They were mainly in Sannoyea Town, the headquarter town of Sannoyea District during one of the area’s weekly market days.
While there, series of meetings were held with the Sannoyea District Education Office, principals, teachers and students of some schools, as well as many residents of Sannoyea Town.
Dr Sonpon In Coversation With Some Individuals Of Sannoyea
There were interactions with marketers from different areas inclusive of Totota and many other towns and villages, while at the same time, the team was administering check-ups and treatments for many people for free.
Dr. Sonpon, during the meetings, he told the people of Sannoyea District that every semester at the Taongi National University is about two hundred and fifty-eight United States Dollars (US$258) and one spends about three years to obtain a bachelor’s degree.
He encouraged them not to be bothered about paying the (US$258) every semester because students will only need sixty United States Dollars (US$60) each to register and pay twenty United States Dollars (US$20) monthly until graduation. The balance will be credited to their accounts as debts to be paid after graduation.
Interactions With Students Of Sannoyea
According to him, the student loan program is aimed at ensuring that people achieve quality higher education.
As for the free medical outreach program, he said it is expected to last for very long time and it was launched in the James Dennis Community in Weala, Cinta Township District #: 5, Margibi County recently.
The program is aimed at ensuring that sicknesses and diseases such as worms, stomach pain, rashes and birthmarks, headache, malaria, fever, food allergy, febrile seizures and eyesight, vision are treated.
Others are earache, diarrhea and vomiting, dehydration, cough, cold and air infections, constipation, colic, burns and sores, bronchiolitis, asthma and many others.
A key one among them is the circumcision of male children which has benefited a lot of children since the medical outreach began.
The implementers of the Taongi National University’s free medical outreach programs are students of the institution’s nursing department and the program is benefiting women and children, mainly pregnant women, babies, baby mothers, children, old and young people.
Dr. Mike M Sonpon said the TNU’s Free Medical Outreach Team is composed of the TNU Nursing Department in collaboration with some health workers who are volunteering and it is also headed by a volunteer, Dr Sammie R Konneh, a Pharmacologist.
Meanwhile, Dr. Sonpon used the occasion to emphasize the need for support to the free medical outreach program so as to benefit a lot more women and children in Liberia.
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