{"id":219605,"date":"2026-01-07T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-investigator-report-triggers-renovation-of-bong-countys-only-school-for-the-deaf\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:44:38","slug":"liberian-investigator-report-triggers-renovation-of-bong-countys-only-school-for-the-deaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-investigator-report-triggers-renovation-of-bong-countys-only-school-for-the-deaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberian Investigator Report Triggers Renovation of Bong County&#8217;s Only School for the Deaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8211; A report by <strong><em>The Liberian Investigator<\/em><\/strong> has prompted concrete action in Bong County, leading to the renovation of the Gbarnga Central School of the Deaf, the county&#8217;s only institution dedicated to educating children with hearing impairments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The intervention followed a <a href=\"https:\/\/liberianinvestigator.com\/feature\/deaf-children-bong-county-left-behind-liberia-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2025 expos\u00e9<\/a> detailing the school&#8217;s deteriorating conditions&#8211;findings that drew the attention of the Bong County Council, which subsequently approved a US$1,500 allotment to rehabilitate the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Gbarnga Central&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070070.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; A report by The Liberian Investigator has prompted concrete action in Bong County, leading to the renovation of the Gbarnga Central School of the Deaf, the county&#8217;s only institution dedicated to educating children with hearing impairments. The intervention followed a June 2025 expos\u00e9 detailing the school&#8217;s deteriorating conditions&#8211;findings that drew the attention of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,2960,33860,17456,14682,1107,1090,257,9541,5144,4362,254,23062],"class_list":["post-219605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bong","tag-countys","tag-deaf","tag-investigator","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-news","tag-renovation","tag-report","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-triggers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}