Radio EducAid
Don’t think I can say it any better so….thank you for this letter that tells the story so well and thank you all that were involved in making this happen. Fingers crossed the baton will not be dropped! Dear Chris … Read More
ICT – now this is starting to move in the right direction
EducAid Lumley IT room in action. Project work. EducAid Rolal IT room in action. A couple of months ago, EducAid received a good number of 2nd hand computers from a partner school in the UK. The idea was to boost … Read More
Volunteering in EducAid
From time to time, people hear of EducAid’s work and volunteer to come over and help out for a period. We have had a few youngsters nearing the end of their formal education and now a small number of teachers … Read More
EducAid and some friends from Heathrow
The visitors brought over piles of boxes of collected goodies for EducAid. You can get more on there than that. This is Sierra Leone! Brima, temporary tour guide, with some of his guests. First on the ferry across to Freetown … Read More
EducAid at the top again
A spot of after class down time. The Junior staff spend their school holidays in teacher training classes but relax a little with a football at the end of the day. A year ago, EducAid began supporting a pilot distance … Read More
The Sierra Leone experience would be a different one, if all our partners in development were like this.
EducAid has been running its own schools for just over ten years in Sierra Leone. The challenges, hurdles and blockages have been enormous. So many of those we expected to help us, actually made life more difficult. It is hard … Read More
Basic stuff in a UK context maybe but rare in Sierra Leone
For some reason, during the war, anything with equipment of any sort (and the more incomprehensible the more it was the case) became a target for the rebels. Schools were burned down but laboratories seemed to rouse an additional level … Read More
Yet another needless TB death.
Sheku Turay, 20, disappeared from the Freetown school a few months ago and after many enquiries we eventually found that he was staying with a distant relative and was seriously ill in the Magbeni community. He was losing weight dramatically … Read More
Max and Charlie getting into their new life.
Offloading stuff at Magbeni, a couple of stops before their final destination. Nervous grins as Max and Charlie move into their new accommodation. Chez Max and Charlie for the next few months. Moved in and working out their next steps. … Read More
Visibly on the mend….
For those of you that have followed the ups and downs of Jimiyke’s progress over the last 18 months, these pictures will gladden your hearts. After an extremely traumatic childhood, Jimiyke turned his life round when given the opportunity of … Read More
The New Year birthday boys
Yahyah Kamara and Musa Bundu, both 19 on 1st January 2011. Yahyah is head boy and Musa is his deputy. Delightful and highly intelligent boys, they are also products of the EducAid Magbeni Junior Secondary School. Why do we carry … Read More
Paradise and back!
Early morning in paradise. The unromantically named Number 2 River Beach is one of the most gorgeous places imaginable. Two days with nothing to do but read, swim, play, eat and drink, it was hard to imagine there were places … Read More
I think Father Christmas has been…….
Christmas Eve celebration in the library before bedtime for little people. Full fat socks everywhere. And more and more of them….. Somebody’s been busy tonight. ABJ has found something with his name on it. Tee getting to the bottom of … Read More
Jennifer too…..and in style!
Jennifer Thomas, left EducAid in 2006 and graduated Dec 2010 from Fourah Bay College, Freetown. While Moses has stayed at the heart of EducAid throughout his studies, Jennifer lived in her family home and was not so frequently to be … Read More
Another one takes to the road but differently!
Richard Johnson, frequent visitor to Sierra Leone for work purposes, has been supporting EducAid in many ways over the last few years. This time he is hot footing it round Edinburgh on our behalf. Have a look at his webpage: … Read More
Musa hits the road but Moses is at the end of his journey!
The ceremonies begin. Carried away by his excited EducAid colleagues. Mammy Yabundu (Alhassan’s mother) with one of her many adopted children. One proud Moses! A well-earned party! Queueing to receive their reward. Moses, founder pupil of EducAid as of September … Read More
And another one takes to the road!
Musa Koroma, former EducAid student won a scholarship to go to study engineering in Russia some months ago. It has been an almighty challenge to get from that point to the point of actual departure never mind arrival in situ. … Read More
Amae Creation supports EducAid Sierra Leone
Great thanks and appreciation go to my French cousin by marriage, Caroline Rittener. Caroline is the creative spirit and brain behind Amae Creation [website: http://AmaeCreation.com]. Caroline’s new enterprise is in Spain but she is also keen to ensure that she … Read More
A flavour of life at EducAid Lumley.
French / British lawyer, Marie-Aimée, has just got back to the UK after a stint in Sierra Leone working on Justice Sector Reform. (There is, as I am sure you can imagine, significant need for it!) She has done some … Read More
20 things you wouldn’t do!
……unless it was for a good cause! Alex Ehegartner [head of citizenship at Stockport Grammar School] and for mysterious reasons, otherwise known as Mister E, had groups of youngsters hurtling round the place, making large amounts of noise and mess … Read More