Posts by Miriam Mason

Widad Worneh, new Coordinator for Pastoral Care and Behaviour Management, is getting stuck into her role.  A key part of EducAid’s positive behaviour management strategy is the peer mediator system.  Students are trained on each site to mediate in situations where students have got themselves in trouble. The training focuses on listening skills, empathy, being…

Another full on day in EducAid, with its great ups and terrible downs.  Today we have heard that Jimiyke Koroma has completed his anti-TB treatment and one very lucky young man has come through after being very close to death with TB throughout his brain and body.  On the same day, we have heard that, completely out…

Modupe Taylor-Pearce inspiring the young EducAidians So many good things happening that there is no time to blog about them! On 12th October, 2013, the EducAid past pupils held their first EducAidian Professionals Conference. Emmanuel Gaima leading the conferencein drawing up the Charter The event was organised by Haja Gbla, Fatmata Romalieu Barrie, Yahyah Kamara…

Standard practice across all sorts of projects, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is the bane of many project workers lives.  In large part, this is because the dreaded logical framework (logframe) ends up dictating what has to be done, so activities are undertaken because they will satisfy the needs of the M&E strategy rather than because…

Transparency International published their statistics on bribery, this week:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23231318 Sierra Leone is head of the league once more.  And this time it is for the highest percentage of the population that has paid bribes for goods and services.  In Sierra Leone 84% of the population has paid a bribe in the last year. When discussing…

What a great weekend…… Small group work – thinking through our dreams for the future of EducAid It was the second women’s weekend, with all the EducAid female staff talking over their progress during the last month, putting together their ideas about how they would hope EducAid will develop over the next 1, 5 and…

Haja and another teaching colleague EducAid has been contracted for several years to provide literacy and numeracy classes for the female inmates of four prisons.   Haja, one of our young past pupils, teaches in the Women’s Project, bringing dropout girls back into education.  She is also part of the EducAid AdvocAid team.  She is…

In their own words: We met playing hockey for the same team in our local town.  We have been talking about it for a while and have finally booked it, Bev is the more adventurous one of the two of us as she has already climbed Machu Picchu. We both went travelling through different parts…

Abibatu and Mabinty, the Women’s Project teachers in Rogbere, are passionate about getting girls back into education.  Both of them have stories to tell of their owndifficulties but have come through strong and in a great position to help their younger ‘sisters’. The Women’s Project, EducAid’s catch up education programme for secondary age girls who…

Sierra Leone is a small country the size of Wales on the West African coast, 8th poorest country in the world. What is the face of this poverty?  The lack of justice and the lack of health care!  What is the answer?  Education! How many times have I said that, when talking to potential supporters…

The first EducAid wedding:  Ezekiel and Mamie are now Mr and Mrs Nonie. The very smiley Ezekiel is a founder pupil who joined EducAid on 18th September 2000 for the earliest lessons on the back veranda of the rented building EducAid called home for the first 5 years of the school’s existence: 105 Regent Road,…

How exciting……. A number of EducAid students applied for a place on the African Gifted Foundation’s summer academy and ALL OF THEM WERE SELECTED.   This is the letter we received: African Gifted Foundation Academy Summer 2013 – 21st -27th August, 2013 Following a detailed selection exercise we are very pleased to invite the Educaid…

Cobra, and colleagues as the relationship between EducAid and some of its partner schools starts Cobra and colleague, Marion, at the same event Mohamed Cobra Bangura, youngest leader at EducAid, had an idea.  In his own words….. Well, at first it was a bit of a daydream when I had this idea.  The idea was…

Young Alusine Barrie leading teacher trainingon positive behaviour management Science teachers gathered for active learning training Deputy Director of Education for Port Loko Districtaddresses assembled principals from partner schools EducAid is approached regularly with requests to start more and more schools across the country but funding and even managing them is not within our reach…

Haja Gbla’s name was pulled out of the hat and she came as staff representative to State House Fellow MOR recipient Jussein Jaward congratulates Miriam Independence Day 27th April 2013 and Miriam Mason-Sesay MBE is invited to the State House by the president to receive another honour. The Member of the Order of the Rokel…

This morning, I received the following note from one of our young stars, Abdul Noah Mansaray.  Many young people in Sierra Leone finish their secondary education well into their early twenties but due to his diligence and intelligence, Abdul Noah finished at 16.  He was fortunate to gain sponsors from among EducAid’s friends and went…

A big day for 7 EducAidians as they graduated from the University of Sierra Leone on Saturday, 6th April.  After years of effort and overcoming some significant difficulties within the institution, they have emerged successful and triumphant.  Lives and futures are transformed by education which opens doors so significantly for them.  But they are the…

On the evening of Wednesday 20 February, the Acting British High Commissioner, Ms Lesley Beaton, hosted a reception at the High Commissioner’s Residence to formally present Miriam Mason-Sesay with the MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) that she had been awarded in the most recent New Year Honours List.  This…