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Jimiyke in shock!
The ‘Welcome Jimiyke to UK’ fireworks in Battersea Park! At long last, Jimiyke is in the UK ready to be assessed for treatment. Thanks to…
Read More‘Champion’
Just to share a little taste of our tropical joys….. Fancy a bit of this on your shoulder? ‘Champion’ is the local name for a…
Read MoreAnd another one…..
The sun rising over the Malama Hills – the view from EducAid Lumley [Freetown].A couple of weeks ago, I posted Juldeh’s success and consequent plight…
Read MoreGo Girls Go!
The Women’s Project started in Lumley, Freetown in March 2006. Its target beneficiaries were girls who wanted to go to secondary school but, for whatever…
Read MoreHungry to learn
While kids are kids and we would not pretend that our students are universal saints who always thirst for knowledge, it would certainly be fair…
Read MoreCongratulations to the EducAid staff and students
Newspaper cutting from ‘Awoko’. It doesn’t matter where our staff go at the moment, they are congratulated at every turn. Once again, we have 100%…
Read MoreReally good news this time
At long last! Thanks to the kind efforts of a talented lawyer by the name of Paul Chiy, who took up Jimiyke’s case, his application…
Read More24/7 electricity – too good to be true?
EducAid at night with it’s new electricity provision. I met someone from World Bank in June. I was simultaneously outraged at the impunity with which,…
Read MoreDifficult choices
Sitting up in their bench beds.3 years ago or so, we realised that the one room in Alhassan’s mum’s bungalow which was for the live-in…
Read MoreEducAid on the BBC
Some of our youngsters have the most harrowing tales from the war. A few of them interviewed each other as part of the BBC ‘Hunger…
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