Educate the Future Leaders of Sierra Leone

Dear Project Supporters,

Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated as it continues to make an impact on the future leaders in Sierra Leone.     Two of the students that have directly benefited from your generous support are Festus & Joy.   

Festus has four younger half-siblings and lives with his father and stepmother in a one-room flat rented in a big house compartment at Looking Town in the Grafton community, the Eastern part of Freetown. His favorite subject is mathematics, he loves playing soccer and hopes to work professionally at a bank when he grows up.  He is currently in class four and is attending the Our Lady of Mount Camel Catholic Primary School. 

Joy has no siblings and she lost her father at a young age.  She lives with her mom in a single room at a joint apartment at the Smith Lane, Gbendembu, Goderich community in the western end of Freetown.  Her mother is a low-income earner, she does door to door sales of rubber slippers. Joy is attending the Methodist Girls High School and she is in her second year at Junior High School. Her favorite subjects are Mathematics and English and she enjoys singing and reading.  Joy would like to become a Medical Doctor when she grows up so she can take care of sick people.

Your support has truly made a difference for Festus, Joy, and other students in Freetown, Sierra Leone.  We welcome your ongoing support as we continue to provide children in Sierra Leone with the resources they need to be the Future Leaders of Sierra Leone.

Our recurring donors are truly making a lasting difference.  If you haven't had the chance to sign up for a recurring donation yet, we warmly welcome your ongoing support as we continue to provide children in Sierra Leone with the educational resources they need to be the future leaders of Sierra Leone.

Please share this project with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at GlobalGiving@developafrica.org.

Warm regards,

Amy and the Develop Africa team

Links:

• Start a recurring donation for future leaders in Sierra Leone

Dear Project Supporters,

Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated as it continues to make an impact on the future leaders in Sierra Leone.  Below is an update from the Sierra Leone Develop Africa team, regarding the challenges related to delivering school supplies to remote villages.   You can also see in this video how challenging it is to navigate the roads

The main roads between Freetown to Makeni are paved and suitable for standard taxis and other vehicles which will take approximately 2hrs 30m to get from Freetown to Makeni when using your private car but will spend more time when using public transports. The distance between Freetown and Makeni is 138 km. The roads to provincial towns like the Makeni to Kamakwie road are in very bad shape and will take approximately 4hours to 30 minutes to cover a distance of 55 miles. Despite the ongoing work in recent years, there are still many more miles to be covered before the journey could be safe.

Travelling by road is probably the most dangerous part of getting books and supplies to Kamawornie a village in the far north of the country where Develop Africa is supporting the primary and junior secondary school as well as providing academic support to the village teachers.

Getting to Kamawornie from Kamakwie is another 11 miles and here there are no public taxis or minibuses except motorcycles, bicycles or walking on feet. Motorbikes are often the only form of transport.

We usually make use of the Poda’s(minibuses), they are the cheapest form of transport but are poorly maintained, stop frequently, and pack passengers tightly.  Minibuses travel between major routes and will generally contain more people than there are seats.  Private own vehicles especially NGO’s are much more respected at checkpoints than the public transports as the local police will only ask for identification and applaud you for bringing development to their communities.  

While the roads will continue to be a challenge, the students and teachers in Kamawornie were very thankful for the school supplies and learning materials.  It is thanks to YOU, that these school supplies were able to be distributed to students in Kamawornie.

Our recurring donors are truly making a lasting difference.  If you haven't had the chance to sign up for a recurring donation yet, we warmly welcome your ongoing support as we continue to provide children in Sierra Leone with the educational resources they need to be the future leaders of Sierra Leone. 

Please share this project with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at GlobalGiving@developafrica.org.

Warm regards,

Amy and the Develop Africa team

Links:

• Start a recurring donation for future leaders in Freetown
• Video of road conditions