Posts by Miriam Mason
British Volunteers taste the realities of life in the poorest country in the world
It has only been possible to start having volunteers from the UK in the last 12 months or so. Previously, the situation just felt too unstable and unpredictable to take the risk. This term we have no less than 6 volunteers aged between 16 and 22. They have been thrown in the deep end:…
Read MoreCitizenship Education Week
Citizenship Education Week is over. This year the focus was building self-esteem. All students spent the week compiling their self-portfolios: self portrait collages, CV, my dreams, my hopes, my past, my achievements, my favourite music, poem, pictures, books; how I see myself etc etc Why? Because ‘Self’ is undermined in so many ways here. In…
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Teachers aren’t supposed to have favourites but somehow it is hard not to sometimes…. I have one in particular who I find humbling to work with because of how he is despite all he has been through. He finished his final exams on Wednesday having very nearly lost his life to unspecified abdominal infections a…
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The Freetown school building now holds 700 students although things are quite tight. Definitely progress from under the tree in 2000.
Read Morewhere are we now
Where to start…… Since coming back from the last fund-raising trip on Easter Monday, it has been incredible how besieged and battered we have been. It feels up close that we have never had such a difficult time since I arrived in 2000. Maybe it is because we are in the middle of it ……
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