The University of Liberia (UL) and the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) have announced a groundbreaking partnership to renovate all of UL’s bathrooms across its Capitol Hill, Fendall and Health Sciences campuses.
Earlier on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, UL President Dr. Layli Maparyan met with Mo Ali, Managing Director of LWSC, to cement the details of the initiative. Ali, accompanied by Patrick Sandikie, LWSC Deputy Director for Technical Services, presented the final report of a water and sanitation assessment that had been conducted on the Capitol Hill and Fendall campuses, noting that the Health Sciences campus assessment was underway.
“LWSC is well-positioned to collaborate with UL to improve both the water and the sanitation conditions on UL’s campuses,” Ali said. “We can work together, and we will.”
Under the joint effort, LWSC will rehabilitate wells on both campuses, including digging new boreholes where necessary, building new water storage facilities, fixing pipes and plumbing, and installing new bathroom facilities, including toilets and sinks; UL, using earmarked funds recently received from the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, will purchase the bathroom renovation supplies, while LWSC will cover the cost of strengthening Capitol Hill campus’s access to Monrovia’s water and sewer grid and digging new wells at Fendall; and labor will be a joint effort between LWSC professionals, UL’s Plant Operations Department (POD), and UL’s newly appointed cross-functional technical team.
Work is expected to commence this week.
Also in attendance at the meeting was UL’s new Interim Vice President for Administration, Sehmah R. Jallah, who has instructed UL’s POD – led by Jefferson Walker—to clean all the bathrooms on all the campuses this week in advance of the renovation.
“The renovation workers deserve a clean and clutter free space in which to get going,” Jallah remarked.
President Maparyan expressed deep gratitude to Ali and LWSC for the joint effort. She also underscored the initiative’s importance to the entire UL community.
“This is the collaboration we have been waiting for,” she said. “We can see a light at the end of the tunnel. UL’s students, faculty, staff, and guests will, at long last, have the dignified facilities worthy of the nation’s flagship university.”
