ABC News – Jonathan Bloom
“Ebola is a deadly disease, but in some African countries it’s having another effect on education. A local nonprofit is battling Ebola’s effect on a generation of kids….San Francisco Dr. Phouc Le expected went to a school in Liberia and was surprised by what he saw. “Nothing in the media, or what I was reading, told me that the school system in Liberia had been shut down since the summer,” Le said. David Risher, president and co-founder of Worldreader, knows all too well that education is the unlikely casualty of Ebola. “No parent wants to send their kid to a school where they could get a disease, and frankly, teachers don’t want to work in that environment either,” Risher said. A former Amazon executive, Risher’s nonprofit Worldreader has been giving schools in Africa the very items he used to sell, e-books and Kindles.”(more)