Marie McHugh on the run!

Marie McHugh, Dr in the making and long term supporter of EducAid, is undertaking a half ironwoman for EducAid and here she is in training! Please do support her:http://www.facebook.com/l/kAQGHc2ONAQELXED_s2Hm4GDDZmqJ0y5u1tSvCehtpA-R2Q/www.justgiving.com/halfanironwoman If you are interested in knowing about EducAid’s work with vulnerable young Sierra Leoneans, please go to www.educaid.org.uk and www.sierraleonegirls.blogspot.com

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Update from Balla Turay

Balla Turay attended EducAid Sierra Leone and did excellently in his senior secondary exams.  Thanks to his excellent results and his community service certificate, he got a place to study ICT in Venezuela.  Here is how he is a little update on how he is getting on…… What I have done so far since my…

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Blessed George Napier et al supporting EducAid

Josh worked with his father, doing the garden for friends and neighbours and raised £200+ for EducAid Now back in the UK for ten plus very cold days, I have just spent the morning in Blessed George Napier School.  I left there as a pupil some 26 years ago, (scary thought) and did not expect…

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Delia and Jonathon Kay visit Maronka and Rolal

While most of the retired western world hit the golf course or do lunch, Delia and Jonathon Kay hit the trail to Sierra Leone.  They spent a full year working in the newly founded Catholic University of Makeni (for more information go to https://www.educaid.org.uk/unimak-looking-good-3/ Not satisfied with helping with teaching and training, they have now returned…

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The Bike Ride – Let’s get cycling

                       Sponsored Bicycle Ride from Hoek van Holland to Brussels via Amsterdam outskirts 30th August to 2nd September 2012 Proceeds to benefit Educaid, Sierra Leone The trip will start with all cyclists catching the 20.00 train from London, Liverpool Street station to Harwich on Thursday…

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A Long Dry Season

We have had lock down on the well today.  Drinking water pumped up first thing in the morning and then the whole thing locked so that all washing and laundry water be taken from the swamp. The Maronka well when it was first dug, capped and producing clean water. This is really just the first…

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Radio Bankasoka

We have just got back, in the middle of the night from a good session at the Radio Bankasoka, the local information station.  Reverend Andy interviewed Isata M, ex-EducAid student who is currently working in the Girls’ Safe House, Sumaila Bockarie, ex-EducAid student who is currently teaching in the Maronka primary school and me about…

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Family Literacy has started in Maronka

Having mentioned the idea over a year ago, of getting the parents and families involved in literacy classes, it has taken us too long to get round to starting.  Obai and indeed his wives have been on my case gently reminding and at long last we have started. Ann, Jane and Isata registered over twenty-two…

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UniMak – looking good

Isata contemplating a future in development work and communication. The tertiary education options in Sierra Leone often leave me feeling almost desperate.  We preach a message of destruction of inequalities through education but in practice we find that the right connections and the willingness to pay on the side is what really makes it possible…

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Emily hits the roads of Paris for EducAid

Emily née Inman Emily is training for the Paris marathon and will run to raise monies for EducAid.  She has set up a Just-Giving page: http://www.justgiving.com/Emily-OHare. Please do support her! We are happy to be able to confirm that, as all overheads are covered by the trustees, all donations will go directly to the project…

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Easy Fundraising

http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/educaidsierraleone If you follow this link, you can raise money for free by doing your online shopping through this link.  Please do, it is very quick and easy to do and EducAid benefits from every online penny you spend. Thank you. If you are interested in knowing more about EducAid’s work with vulnerable young Sierra…

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Surprising she only lost her voice!

With Jane’s enthusiastic leaping about and charging round the village, with the Sparrows class, we are quite surprised she has only lost her voice! Jane Harris, criminology lecturer from the UK, has been in Maronka for three weeks and is settling in well.  She left her academic work so that she could ‘get her hands…

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Registration of all schools! Yes Yes Yes!

Mabinty, in class 4, will be able to sit the exams under EducAid Maronka when she gets to the top of the school. In the early days, I had to try and register some of the schools.  I went to the Ministry of Education zillions of times.  I filled in the forms to have them…

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Easy fundraising

This is for all you online shoppers…… If you register online by clicking on the link below, the Easy Fundraising website will send us a cheque periodically with money that gets generated on the side of all your online purchases. Please do.  I just did and it takes only moments.  As most of you are…

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Financial crisis

The Global Financial Crisis is kicking in.  Reduced giving means that at the meeting with the EducAid trustees this week, we have been told that all discretionary spending must stop and with immediate effect on my return to Sierra Leone, we must do a staff review and reduce staff and we will have to stop feeding the…

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