Leadership
An Exciting Week in the Life of the EducAid Education Team
The EducAid Education Team is a group of passionate educators who are dedicated to improving teaching and learning in the EducAid schools and contribute to national educational development. Come and see what we’ve been up to this week: EducAid Schools: We are always reflecting on our own teaching strategies to make sure that we achieve…
Read More#WomenofEducAid: meet Josephine Kamara
We hope you have been enjoying our #WomenofEducAid campaign. As a new member of the EducAid family, I have really enjoyed getting to know these women a little better by hearing their stories and I now have a much better picture of life at EducAid because of it. Today we are sharing another story. Josephine…
Read More#WomenofEducAid: meet Haja Gbla
By Haja Gbla & Roxanne Tibbert In the wake of International Women’s Day, EducAid Sierra Leone want to celebrate the many women working to make quality education accessible to the most vulnerable students in Sierra Leone. These #WomenofEducAid often work behind the scenes and are unknown to many of our supporters. We want to take this…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day: Using education as a tool to create #BalanceforBetter
By Zainab Bangura Zainab is the Head of Equality at EducAid, she works hard to ensure that our schools are places of opportunity for both girls and boys, as well as helping to educate all students on the importance of gender equality. Zainab is passionate about encouraging young girls to be strong, and boys to…
Read MoreWhat kind of teachers will continue to flourish in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
A contribution to the Global Teacher Blog Series Photo by Olivia Acland The Fourth Industrial Revolution is reaching Sub-Saharan Africa in bits and pieces. The consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution reaching the rest of the world are more likely how we will experience it more and more before we, ourselves, start really engaging with…
Read MoreGladys Mansaray – Lawyer in the Making!
I am Gladys Mansaray, a third year LLB Honours student at the University of Makeni (UniMak). I went to the EducAid Secondary School in 2009. Before 2009, it was really not easy for my parents to pay my school fees. I got to know about EducAid, a free school that is providing good quality education. …
Read MoreWhat careers advice would you provide to those entering the workforce in 2030?
What careers advice would you provide to those entering the workforce in 2030? Contribution to discussions for the Global Education & Skills Forum 2018: ‘How do we prepare young people for the world of 2030 and beyond?’ The world has been changing exponentially quickly over the last decade plus and is unlikely to stop doing…
Read MoreDr. Véronique Desnain – EducAid Trustee
Dr. Véronique Desnain is one of the newest members of our Board of Trustees. Véronique is an educationalist: a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and a long-term friend of Miriam and of EducAid. In April 2017, Véronique travelled to Sierra Leone to visit Miriam, our programmes and to deliver the second phase of our…
Read MoreSierra Leone: A Nation’s Journey
Binta Bah, a female student, Mohamed and myself attended a workshop at Makeni which was organised by Charlie Haffner and Sorious Samura. The theme is Material Development workshop, SIERRA LEONE: A NATION’S JOURNEY. The project is about changing the narrative inspiring the people owning the future. This workshop also focused on discussing problems that are affecting…
Read MoreHassanatu Sheriff – A Role Model
In Sierra Leone women are rarely offered the opportunity to study, to learn and eventually to excel. It is widely recognised that female empowerment is crucial to unlocking national potential – both social and economic – yet in many parts of Sierra Leone, and indeed the rest of the world, this information is still not…
Read MoreHow do we better engender a healthy, happy, and productive school environment where both teachers and students can flourish?
The EducAid vision: A dignified and democratic Sierra Leone where poverty is eliminated by educated citizens! It is difficult to create a productive school environment without a clear vision so, for us in EducAid, this is our starting point; we are ready to be as radical as we need to be in order to achieve…
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