Ducor Palace Hotel

The Hotel Ducor once housed a five-star hotel. It now is home to approximately 2000 squatters, who live in the looted, filthy building, one of Monrovia’s all-too-common reminders of war and devastation. Hotel Ducor has no electricity, latrines, or running water. Eric Thibodeau visited the hotel and met a resident who was teaching some of the children in his spare time. Deciding that the conditions for school were unacceptable, Thibodeau set out to improve them.

Mercy Ships crew joined Thibodeau to clean up the school area. They built benches and painted blackboards. Over the past few months, attendance has gone from a few dozen children attending sporadically to over one hundred students attending full time, with seven teachers now working to give these kids a chance at education. The school has been christened the “Mercy School,” and parents and students alike express thanks for what God has done through the Mercy Ships crew.

Read about Prince, one of the teachers:
www.ericthibodeau.com/Prince.htm