School Feeding Program in Sierra Leone

Dear BTA Donors and Partners,   

We deliver greetings from the management, staff and Children of the Children of the Nations – Sierra Leone (one of BTA’s four feeding programs). To our selfless donors we express our sincere thanks and appreciation for your philanthropic work in serving the needs of the underprivileged and the less fortunate of our society. We are very grateful for your continued support in helping us fight hunger in our schools with your never-failing school feeding provision. The BTA meal is still a wonderful meal with a unique flavor and experience having it for lunch. Only the eater can tell you about its impact on them.

Your provision of solar lights for studying at night at Jiminga, Mokpangumba and Ngolala old Town villages have already started paying dividend to us through the 2020/2021 Basic Education Certificate Exams (BECE) results. In that examination all of the pupils passed.  You have given us the enabling environment to access the true meaning of free and quality education. With the presence of the school feeding support to our school you have helped us fight hunger and poor health especially for the host of us who are from poverty-stricken communities and homes.  We appreciate you so much as we are gradually getting our basic needs in food, light, clean drinking water, toilet facility, hospital, etc.) at our doorsteps. Thank you loads!

Children’s story

Story One: We have a Junior Secondary School 3 pupil who earned the best Basic Education Examination Certificate Examination (BECE 2020/2021) result. She loves and has always appreciated the BTA Donors for their school feeding support to them. She is giving all the glory of her academic success to God and to BTA for the support to earn this success.

“Dear Donors, I am not a born of Ngolala Town community, but my parents have settled here for a while and have become permanent residents now. In our small family home, BTA School feeding food has been the reason for our rush to school in the morning and the source of the smiling faces home. Thank you.

Story Two: We also have a young girl who has been brought up by COTN-SL since childhood.  She earned the 2^nd best result in Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) with Aggregate 14. According to the scores of her BECE report, she is qualified for all the different streams of study (Arts/Science/Commerce &Tech/Voc.)

She is very grateful to COTN-SL and the BTA family for the thought of providing us food in school through the school feeding program.

In conclusion, we the staff, children, and community as a whole are very much appreciative of your endless support to our children's welfare in school. We thank for your relentless effort to provide our needs.

In many countries across the globe, there is a feeling that the pandemic is ending.  Well, that’s just not the case across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa including our beloved Sierra Leone.  According to the World Health Organization, Reuters and other organizations, cases are going up.  There are also very few vaccines available in Sierra Leone.

It is a situation that causes great concern for A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa and its supporters and we are determined to keep our programmes going.  One example to share is Ben Hirsch School.  Ben Hirsch has managed to establish a secondary school and vocational school for disadvantaged children and orphans which means we are able to reach more children with nutrition during this challenging time. 

The school feeding of the orphans has made them very attentive in learning. BTA and partners have not just given these children food but have helped them in their social behaviours which are changing their lives.  There are ten teachers and four social workers in this new location who are providing the support to the children as we provide the food.

Thank you for your continued support and we will keep you apprised of the pandemic situation and the progress we will make by continuing to keep our children nourished as they deal with continuing challenges.