Posts by Erin Northey
#WomenofEducAid: meet Josephine Kamara
We hope you have been enjoying our #WomenofEducAid campaign. As a new member of the EducAid family, I have really enjoyed getting to know these women a little better by hearing their stories and I now have a much better picture of life at EducAid because of it. Today we are sharing another story. Josephine…
Read More#WomenofEducAid: meet Zainab Bangura
This is the second post in the blog series #WomenofEducAid which champions and celebrates the many women who make EducAid what it is today, and who continuously work towards quality education and gender equality in Sierra Leone. Today’s blog celebrates our Head of Equality, Zainab Bangura. Zainab has been a great addition to the EducAid…
Read More“I have turned I can’t into I can, and my dreams into plans”
“I have turned I can’t into I can, and my dreams into plans.” – Female student at EducAid Lumley EducAid celebrated International Women’s Day on 8th March at all EducAid schools. Here’s a school-by-school overview of how EducAidians celebrated and some highlights from this term so far. Rolal: As a way of spreading the EducAid…
Read More#WomenofEducAid: meet Haja Gbla
By Haja Gbla & Roxanne Tibbert In the wake of International Women’s Day, EducAid Sierra Leone want to celebrate the many women working to make quality education accessible to the most vulnerable students in Sierra Leone. These #WomenofEducAid often work behind the scenes and are unknown to many of our supporters. We want to take this…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day: Using education as a tool to create #BalanceforBetter
By Zainab Bangura Zainab is the Head of Equality at EducAid, she works hard to ensure that our schools are places of opportunity for both girls and boys, as well as helping to educate all students on the importance of gender equality. Zainab is passionate about encouraging young girls to be strong, and boys to…
Read MoreFemale Genital Mutilation, Secret Societies, and the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM in Sierra Leone
By Nnamdi Eseme Content warning: Please be aware that this blog post might be upsetting for some, as it contains information about the practice and consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). As today is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (6th February), we asked Nnamdi Eseme, EducAid’s Education Programme Officer,…
Read MoreEducAid’s First Term of 2018-19 Highlights
It’s been a great first term at EducAid. All EducAid schools were eager to share some highlights from the term which we have compiled below. Thank you for all you have done to support our work this term. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and New Year. Maronka Primary School reports that pupils…
Read MorePowerPoints and plantain: fundraising for EducAid
By Olivia Burns, EducAid Volunteer Charities are rarely ever free from anxiety about fundraising. To trust in the sustainability of many projects, you need to have confidence in the sustainability of the funding. However this can be a hard task when, especially in the UK, much of the public feel overwhelmed by the…
Read MoreA New School Year at EducAid
On Monday, 10th September EducAid schools opened their doors to the 2018-19 school year. We have collected some photos from that first week to share the sense of excitement, joy and focus of this special time of year. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. …
Read MorePoems by Alice Y
Alice Y is a junior staff member at the Pate Bana Marankh school. Passionate about girls’ education and rights, Alice came to EducAid when her family fell on hard times and were unable to fund her education. She enjoys writing and sharing her poetry. THERE IS HOPE FOR TOMORROW Seeing young talent wasting…
Read MoreThe Marple Band’s Music From Musicals Concert for EducAid
by Imaan Sheikh The Marple Band are a highly-regarded, traditional brass band in the Stockport community. They regularly engage in performances, fundraising, charity work and to nurture their relationship with the community. Last year the band performed a Music from Movies concert and donated to EducAid. If you are in the Stockport area, be sure to check…
Read MoreMiriam’s First Academic Article Published!
As many of you may know, our Country Director, Miriam Mason is working towards her PhD at the University of Durham. Unsurprisingly, her research relates to training teachers in Sierra Leone, a topic close to all of our hearts. As Miriam’s research has progressed, there are a number of academic articles relating to her work…
Read MoreA Day in the Life of an EducAid Volunteer
By Zeinab Makki In celebration of Volunteers’ Week (1st to 7th June), Zeinab Makki interviews one of EducAid’s most frequent volunteers, retired biology teacher, Ken Hall. “You meet young people with a drive and passion for doing something to change lives – which you don’t see in the same way in English…
Read MoreGladys Mansaray – Lawyer in the Making!
I am Gladys Mansaray, a third year LLB Honours student at the University of Makeni (UniMak). I went to the EducAid Secondary School in 2009. Before 2009, it was really not easy for my parents to pay my school fees. I got to know about EducAid, a free school that is providing good quality education. …
Read MoreSeptember 2017 at EducAid
September was an eventful month for everyone at EducAid. Teachers and staff gathered together for training and meetings before welcoming the children back into the classroom on 11th September. This was no small achievement after the devastation of August’s mudslide and flooding. A new facility is taking shape in Rolal and EducAid students joined the Climate…
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