article_snippet: But just a few months ago, Meyler was on the front lines fighting the Ebola epidemic in Liberia.
article_snippet: While Meyler was on summer break last year, visiting Meyler family in the United States, Meyler mind kept going back to Liberia and fighting Ebola.
article_snippet: Meyler, who is not a medical professional, flew back to the front lines of a global epidemic, the last place most Americans wanted to be during fighting Ebola.
article_snippet: Back in Liberia, Meyler quickly realized that fighting Ebola would be more complicated than administering medical care.
article_snippet: Meyler ability to speak the Liberian-English dialect facilitated logistics.
article_snippet: The hardest part for Meyler, who often describes herself as a "big kid," was seeing children abandoned and orphaned by Ebola.
article_snippet: According to UNICEF, 16,600 children have lost one or both parents to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
article_snippet: Meyler's school turned one of Meyler's school guesthouses into Hope 21, a place to quarantine children suspected of having the Ebola virus.
article_snippet: Long before Meyler became an Ebola fighter, Meyler grew up in a working-class family from New Jersey.
article_snippet: I'm not the same person that I was before Ebola hit," said Meyler.
article_snippet: Reflecting on the months Meyler spent fighting Ebola, Meyler said, "The people on the front lines that were risking "The people on the front lines that were risking their lives lives were the people who were fighting for "The people on the front lines that were risking their lives own lives, who were fighting for "The people on the front lines that were risking their lives children's lives.
article_snippet: Now it is about learning to live with Ebola, said Meyler, whose school has dozens of students who are Ebola orphans and survivors.
highlights_snippet: Meyler worked with the community in Liberian slum to develop Ebola response .
  
highlights_snippet: Dozens of Ebola orphans now attend More Than Me Academy .