Sat, 1 April
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In Sierra Leone, half of the children leaving primary school are unable to read or write. This is not an April Fool’s joke.
The quality of education is affected by untrained teachers, high pupil-teacher ratios, and low quality and inadequate quantity of teaching and learning material.
At EducAid, we know that education is not a joke. Education is a powerful agent of change, it improves health and livelihoods, contributes to social stability, and drives long-term economic growth.
We work every day to provide free, high-quality education to children and young people within our model schools as well as training teachers and improving school leadership to raise the standards of education in more than 60 partner schools.
#NotAnAprilFool #EducAid #education #SierraLeone
In Sierra Leone, half of the children leaving primary school are unable to read or write. This is not an April Fool’s joke. At EducAid, we work every day to provide free, high-quality education to our students and raise the standards of education in more than 65 partner schools. Education is not a joke.
Sun, 2 April
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International Children’s Book Day is an annual celebration of children’s literature, a day to promote literacy and inspire a love of reading among children.
In each EducAid school, children and young people have access to age-appropriate books. Children who read have significantly larger vocabularies than other children. They learn language patterns that support the development of better language skills, and these in turn improve their writing skills. While reading stories, children are thinking and using their imagination to predict, analyse, form opinions, and suggest solutions to problems. Following a storyline needs concentration, it involves using memory and often makes readers experience emotional connections to the characters. Children who read develop stronger socio-emotional skills. Reading also helps children and young people expand their knowledge of the world and reduces stress.
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #InternationalChildrensBookDay #reading #youngreaders
International Children’s Book Day is an annual celebration of children’s literature, a day to promote literacy and inspire a love of reading among children. In each EducAid school, children and young people have access to age-appropriate books that help them develop their vocabulary, language abilities, imagination, concentration, and socio-emotional skills.
Wed, 5 April
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Education is crucial to promote change. At EducAid, we talk to our students about the issues concerning the environment and the relation they have with society, empowering them with the knowledge and attitudes to act as agents of change.
A theme that is of primary importance in Sierra Leone is the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Thousands of people and countless schools, businesses, healthcare centres, farms and factories are being held back because their human rights to water and sanitation still need to be fulfilled.
Across the world, the water and sanitation crisis undermines progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, and disasters to peace.
Water affects us all, so we all need to take action. Everyone can make a difference by changing the way we use, consume, and manage water in our lives. These are some easy actions that will make a great impact:
-Save water: don’t let the tap run when brushing your teeth, doing dishes, or preparing food.
-Stop polluting: don’t put food waste, oils, medicines and chemicals down the toilet or drains.
-Clean up: take part in clean-ups of your local rivers or beaches.
-Protect nature: plant a tree!
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #WorldWaterDay #water #freshwater #environment #savewater #stoppolluting #savetheplanet #protectnature
We talk to our students about the environment, empowering them with the knowledge to act as agents of change. An issue that affects us all is the sustainable management of freshwater resources. We need to change the way we use, consume, and manage water in our lives.
Thu, 6 April
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International Day of Sport for Development and Peace is an opportunity to celebrate the role of sport to drive social change and community development, and to foster peace and understanding. Sport brings people together. It builds bridges showing that it is possible to be rivals while at the same time living peacefully and respectfully together.
EducAid sport days bring together our staff, pupils, their families, and our communities. Sport contributes to the health and physical development of children and young people as well as to their emotional wellbeing, cognitive and social development. Sport days help our pupils more connected to their school community and boost their confidence and self-esteem.
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #IDSDP #sport #development #peace #socialchange #communities #community #sportday
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace is an opportunity to celebrate the role of sport to drive social change and community development, and to foster peace and understanding. EducAid sport days bring together our staff, pupils, their families, and our communities.
Thu, 6 April
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Thanks to our partner Rising Academy Network – SL for sharing these early photos of the tablet program expanding in Freetown, #SierraLeone. We’ll be launching in 40 schools over the next few months along with partners EducAid Sierra Leone and West Africa Blue. Learn more: http://ow.ly/KCiU50Nzp6
#edtech #literacy #numeracy #transformingeducation
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Sun, 9 April
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Happy Easter from our EducAid family to yours!
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #Easter2023
Tue, 11 April
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Ubuntu is an African ideology that focuses on people’s loyalty and mutual relationships. The word Ubuntu is an expression in the Bantu language which means “kindness towards one’s neighbour”. It is a rule of life, based on compassion, respect for the other. Ubuntu urges people to support and help each other, to become aware not only of one’s rights, but also of one’s duties, since it is an ideal push towards all humanity, a desire for peace. “Ubuntu – I am because we are”
Ubuntu has been used to guide African education as a community endeavour and to decolonise it from other education philosophies. At EducAid, we encourage Ubuntu in all our schools, helping students to acknowledge humanity in themselves and others. For our students it means sharing, loving, caring, respecting, generosity, kindness, looking after each other, “we not me”.
Each week students are asked to nominate their classmates for Ubuntu stars. These go to students who have performed acts of kindness, generosity, love, honesty, sharing in line with the Ubuntu way of living. At the end of the week those who have the most Ubuntu stars are celebrated by the class.
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #Ubuntu
“Ubuntu – I am because we are”. We encourage Ubuntu in our schools to help students acknowledge humanity in themselves and others. Students are asked to nominate their classmates for Ubuntu stars that celebrate acts of kindness, generosity, love, honesty and sharing.
Thu, 13 April
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At EducAid we promote STEM education and hands-on, project-based learning. Merging science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, STEM education goes beyond school subjects. It gives students a skill set that makes them more employable and ready to address the challenges of our world. Science helps young people to become better at research and critical thinking, while technology prepares them to work with high-tech innovations. Engineering supports the development of problem-solving skills, and mathematics encourages logical reasoning.
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #STEM #STEMeducation #Science #Technology #Engineering #Mathematics #CriticalThinking #Innovation #ProblemSolving
At EducAid we promote STEM education and hands-on, project-based learning. Merging science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, STEM education goes beyond school subjects. It gives students a skill set that makes them more employable and ready to address the challenges of our world.
Sat, 15 April
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Welcome to EducAid’s Book Club! Written by Ghanaian author Portia Dery and illustrated by South African artist Toby Newsome, “Grandma’s List” is a colourful story about 8-year-old Fatima, who wants to help her grandmother complete her list of errands so that everyone will realise that she is a big girl now. Things don’t go exactly as expected when Fatima loses the list and tries to recall from memory what was written on it… the rest of the story takes the reader on a funny and heart-warming adventure with Fatima and her family.
The book is the winner of the 2018 Children’s Africana Book Award.
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #EducAidBookClub #bookclub #GrandmasList
Welcome to EducAid’s Book Club! Written by Ghanaian author Portia Dery and illustrated by South African artist Toby Newsome, “Grandma’s List” is a colourful story about 8-year-old Fatima, who wants to help her grandmother complete her list of errands so that everyone will realise that she is a big girl now.
Mon, 17 April
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The Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (SLEIC) is designed to improve learning outcomes in literacy and numeracy for children in public primary schools nationwide. We are working with 65 schools and training more than 500 teachers not only in literacy and numeracy, but also in classroom management, gender-responsive practices and strategies to improve the learning environment.
“Now I know that when the relationship is healthy between the teacher and the pupils, there will be a conducive learning environment. Building a healthy relationship with my students is my number one priority upon my return” – A.K., SLEIC training participant
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #SLEIC
“Now I know that when the relationship is healthy between the teacher and the pupils, there will be a conducive learning environment. Building a healthy relationship with my students is my number one priority upon my return” – A.K., teacher and SLEIC training participant
Wed, 19 April
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Read about how EducAid is addressing underperformance in schools in the Port Loko district on the Harvard University blog.
#EducAid #education #SierraLeone #HarvardUniversity #PDIA #PDIAapproach
Fri, 21 April
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Eid Mubarak to those who are celebrating around the world!
#EducAid #Education #SierraLeone #eidmubarak #eidalfitr2023
Tue, 25 April
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A huge congratulations to one of our wonderful supporters @Emma Coleman who completed the London Marathon this weekend in support of EducAid. So far she has raised over £2,500! Thank you for your impressive dedication to improving education in Sierra Leone.
If anyone is interested in taking up the challenge and running the London Marathon in 2024, please do get in touch!
Thu, 27 April
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Sierra Leone gained independence from Great Britain on 27 April 1961 and Sir Milton Margai, who had led the country to its independence, became the first Prime Minister. A year later, in May 1962, Sierra Leone held its first general election as an independent nation.
Today let’s celebrate our journey as a free, democratic country and commemorate the struggles of the women and men who built our nation.
Happy Independence Day, Sierra Leone!
#SierraLeone #IndependenceDay #Independence #EducAid #Education
Happy Independence Day, Sierra Leone!
Today let’s celebrate our journey as a free, democratic country and commemorate the struggles of the women and men who built our nation.
Sun, 30 April
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On International Day to End Corporal Punishment we advocate for protecting children from all forms of violent punishment and we show support to all the children who have been victims of violence.
Physical punishment (smacking, shoving, pushing, caning, spanking) triggers harmful psychological and physiological responses that may last into adulthood. Children who are victims of corporal punishment experience pain, sadness, fear, anger, shame and guilt. Feeling threatened can lead children to develop high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression disorders. This negatively affects children’s social behaviour and can have a negative impact on their education outcomes.
Parents and teachers inflicting corporal punishment on a child indirectly approve aggressive behaviour. In turn, it is likely that the child internalises aggression as an acceptable way to react, and therefore tends to show aggressive behaviours to others. Physical punishment is also associated with lower intellectual achievement, antisocial behaviour, and poorer quality of parent-child and teacher-student relationships.
Hitting children leads to trauma, not better behaviour.
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On International Day to End Corporal Punishment we advocate for protecting children from all forms of violent punishment and we show support to all the children who have been victims of violence. Hitting children leads to trauma, not better behaviour. End Corporal Punishment.
