Advise Salone: EducAid Staff Advocate for Gender Equality
by Ellie Wilson and Nnamdi Eseme Nnamdi Eseme, EducAid’s Education Programme Officer, is a 2016 Fellow of the Women Deliver Young Leaders Programme, a program which identifies and supports young people to address issues affecting youth, especially women and girls, in their community. The program also offers highly competitive grants to Fellows to implement projects…
Read MoreEducAid Urgent Covid-19 Appeal
Dear everyone, We hope this email finds you and your families keeping well in these strange days. EducAid have been working tirelessly these last few weeks to make sure we are doing all we can to keep the children and communities we serve safe in these uncertain times. We write not only to inform you…
Read MoreWhat’s the evidence?
25 years! EducAid has spent 25 years learning, working, striving to improve and finding out what works to improve the quality of the education it offers the young Sierra Leoneans it works with. After 25 years, we are now leading the education improvement conversation and action with others in Sierra Leone as part of the…
Read MoreStories from Maronka
EducAid’s Maronka Primary School is a special place. It is a safe home for girls, it is a model school, and it is a hub for much of EducAid’s teacher training. We are raising money for Maronka as part of a campaign with GlobalGiving. By the 28th of June, we need to raise $5,000 from…
Read MoreLearning with EducAid, a reflection on EducAid’s 25th Anniversary
By Evelyn Davies, Head Teacher at Coldfall Primary School. I was first introduced to Miriam Mason-Sesay, EducAid’s Country Director, in 2005, by a teacher colleague from my son’s primary school. I had little idea that that first meeting would spark a long-term relationship with EducAid and my school, Coldfall Primary, which has been transformative, enriching…
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 Zainab Bangura
This is the second post in the blog series #WomenofEducAid which champions and celebrates the many women who make EducAid what it is today, and who continuously work towards quality education and gender equality in Sierra Leone. Today’s blog celebrates our Head of Equality, Zainab Bangura. Zainab has been a great addition to the EducAid…
Read More“I have turned I can’t into I can, and my dreams into plans”
“I have turned I can’t into I can, and my dreams into plans.” – Female student at EducAid Lumley EducAid celebrated International Women’s Day on 8th March at all EducAid schools. Here’s a school-by-school overview of how EducAidians celebrated and some highlights from this term so far. Rolal: As a way of spreading the EducAid…
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 MoreFemale Genital Mutilation, Secret Societies, and the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM in Sierra Leone
By Nnamdi Eseme Content warning: Please be aware that this blog post might be upsetting for some, as it contains information about the practice and consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). As today is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (6th February), we asked Nnamdi Eseme, EducAid’s Education Programme Officer,…
Read MoreEducAid’s First Term of 2018-19 Highlights
It’s been a great first term at EducAid. All EducAid schools were eager to share some highlights from the term which we have compiled below. Thank you for all you have done to support our work this term. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and New Year. Maronka Primary School reports that pupils…
Read MorePowerPoints and plantain: fundraising for EducAid
By Olivia Burns, EducAid Volunteer Charities are rarely ever free from anxiety about fundraising. To trust in the sustainability of many projects, you need to have confidence in the sustainability of the funding. However this can be a hard task when, especially in the UK, much of the public feel overwhelmed by the…
Read MoreA New School Year at EducAid
On Monday, 10th September EducAid schools opened their doors to the 2018-19 school year. We have collected some photos from that first week to share the sense of excitement, joy and focus of this special time of year. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. …
Read MoreTowards respectful relationships & ensuring schools are safe places for children
The beautiful country of Sierra Leone is one of many countries that have still not banned the use of corporal punishment in schools. The Sierra Leonean Teachers’ Code of Conduct (MEST, 2009) outlaws the cane but the constitution does not forbid its use and the cane is in popular use in schools (Global Initiative to…
Read MoreHow much time should 4 to 18-year-olds spend at school during a calendar year?
(Contribution to the Global Teacher Blog Series) Gosh, what a difficult question! The answer so depends on where you will be when you are not in school. When talking to youngsters in the UK about our youngsters in Sierra Leone, I often find myself saying, ‘…but please don’t imagine that if they can’t go to…
Read MorePoems by Alice Y
Alice Y is a junior staff member at the Pate Bana Marankh school. Passionate about girls’ education and rights, Alice came to EducAid when her family fell on hard times and were unable to fund her education. She enjoys writing and sharing her poetry. THERE IS HOPE FOR TOMORROW Seeing young talent wasting…
Read MoreThere are various models of support to development….
‘Put your hands up if you paid for your own education!’ I often find myself saying to groups that I talk to in the UK about EducAid’s work in Sierra Leone. My audience always look at me a little confusedly and then we talk about it. I think it is fair to say that it is…
Read MoreThe Marple Band’s Music From Musicals Concert for EducAid
by Imaan Sheikh The Marple Band are a highly-regarded, traditional brass band in the Stockport community. They regularly engage in performances, fundraising, charity work and to nurture their relationship with the community. Last year the band performed a Music from Movies concert and donated to EducAid. If you are in the Stockport area, be sure to check…
Read MoreHow are your classrooms teaching the skills to resolve tensions and conflicts so as to find the “common ground” in an increasingly diverse world?
A contribution to the Top Global Teacher Bloggers 2018 Series How are your classrooms teaching the skills to resolve tensions and conflicts so as to find the “common ground” in an increasingly diverse world? What an important question at a time when the world rhetoric seems to be about ‘divide and rule’, finding and exaggerating…
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