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More Than Me Academy Opens School for Girls in Africa
Bernardsville native Katie Meyler spearheaded the effort.
What was once just one Bernardsville native's dream -- to get young girls off the streets of Liberia and out of poverty -- has become a reality with the opening last month of a school for girls there.
The More Than Me Academy opened its doors to 188 students in the Liberian capitol of Monrovia in September and is a project spearheaded by Katie Meyler, of Bernardsville, who saw education as a way to rescue girls in that region from forced prostitution and extreme poverty, reported NJ.com.
The More Than Me Foundation won $1 million last year in Chase Giving Awards, which was televised live on NBC, that Meyler said would be used to build the school.
Meyler, who grew up in Bernardsville and graduated from Bernards High School in 2000, told Patch in January that she believes that we all have an opportunity to help improve the world in some way, "no matter what's going on in our lives."
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