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The Good Things
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•EducAid Lumley came second in the country in the senior public
examinations. This represents a fantastic effort on the part of staff
and students and we are very proud of their achievement.
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•New IT set up, equipment and training for staff and senior
students, thanks to the hard work of some young volunteers
from the UK. Lambeth Academy sent us over 80 desk tops.
North Oxfordshire Academy have sent us 60 laptops.
This takes us into another league.
•Greatly increased numbers of girls in all the schools thanks
to the Women’s Project. Each year we have more and more ex-Women’s Project girls
who successfully sit and pass their public exams.
•Our fourth EducAidian has been selected for sponsorship to study abroad. Issa Fowai is studying engineering in China. Kema Gondo is studying medicine in China. Musa Koroma is in Russia studying Russian then engineering and Balla Turay is now in Venezuela studying ICT. Challenging but exciting.
•Many new strong partnerships between EducAid schools and schools in the UK, Spain and New Zealand to name but a few...
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•A lawyer friend of EducAid’s recently proposed EducAid
as a potential recipient from her will and the result is a
significant donation, coming at a really crucial moment.
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•FORUT, a Norwegian donor agency have built a new
school for Maronka, totally transforming the learning
environment of the students there.
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•The first floor has now been added to the senior
secondary school building in Rolal so we can start a
teacher training and resource centre to support the quality
of teaching and learning in schools around the area.
MoUs are being signed with partner schools who are enthusiastic to join up.
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•EducAid has built a new Girls’ Safe House in Maronka where many of the girls attending the primary school can live in an environment where respect, beauty, order and affection are the order of the day. It opened on 1st October to much fanfare and excitement.
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•EducAid has been given the money to build a new teacher training centre for primary teachers in Maronka. We hope to start operating before Easter.
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•13 EducAid staff are going to the UK for a two week training and observation session. We trust they have a really excellent time and will put to very good use all that they learn and see.
The Hard Things
• EducAid has lost nine students since March 2008 largely through very poor health care provision and lack of understanding of basic health issues on the part of the general population. Alhassan also died completely unexpectedly and needlessly when on a visit from the UK, due to poor medical facilities and decisions.
• Our tertiary students have frequent encounters with corruption in the higher institutions. Two have even been excluded from the College of Medicine with no explanation of their failure or transparency about their genuine standard despite several attempts to clarify the situation.
Mohamed Kargbo [RIP]
Good Friday, 10th April 2009
This photo of Mohamed Kargbo was taken as he arrived in Magbeni, the beginning of his life with EducAid. I took the photo so that he would have it as a memento to look back to: the start of a new life. He never saw the photo! Click on his photo to read more.
Alhassan Lansana Sesay [RIP]
9th June 1973 - 6th August 2009
Alhassan [variously known as H, Mortal Man or most commonly, Command] died when on holiday in Sierra Leone. He came back to visit EducAid and most importantly, his mother, before taking up the full-time responsibility for his beloved son, Kofi, who was to start school in Brixton in September 2009.
He is pictured here the night Kofi was born, one of the happiest days of his life.
For more information, click here.
Macsud Bangura, [RIP]
11th September 2010.
Macsud, cheeky, bright, courageous in the face of his extremely painful sickle cell condition, lost his life to a crisis in his chest that stopped his breathing.
He was one of the ‘Leaders in Training’ who was determined to use his education for the good of the nation.
May those of us who remain, continue to fight in the same spirit for change and development in Sierra Leone.
