In height order…Flex, Alice, Becky and Kofi. All the rice is gone anyway!Flex and Becky have got stuck in to life in Magbeni. Although the staff and students are very welcoming, it is not as easy as it sounds. Magbeni in rainy season is even more cut off than it usually is. There is no…

Oil palm seedling. Coconut seedlings breaking through the undergrowth. There was much generosity shown last year when people gathered in the UK for a memorial mass after Alhassan died. A significant amount of money was donated to EducAid in his memory. I have been searching for an appropriate way of using the money that will…

Many happy memories of our little rainbow family. 1 year ago today, I was woken at 4 by Alhassan feeling unwell and wanting me to bring food. Reassured by the doctor that they would take care of him and he was fine, I went back to sleep. 2 hours later, the other doctor called, knowing…

Interactive games for literacy learning. The teachers engage with a range of activities that they will be able to take back into class. Enjoying testing and timing each other. Long and short vowels games. In February this year Forut handed over a beautiful new school building to EducAid in Maronka. A dream was born. EducAid…

Family Deen with their new family member: baby James [named after Dr James Boardman, co-founder and chairman of EducAid]. The EducAid family at the naming ceremony. Pastor Aruna Bangura prays for Baby James Deen. Mohamed Deen Tarawally has taught Economics at EducAid for over 5 years and his wife, Widad teaches in the Women’s Project.…

Sabrina of AdvocAid on the left. Dr Rugiatu of Amazonian Initiative Movement on the right. Teacher Esther, with three of her pupils, preserving their identities with their new certificates. Adama, now a free woman, signs her name for the first time, to receive her welfare allowance. Esther with her two ex-students with their certificates as…

All in a great cause….. North Oxfordshire Academy have been fundraising for EducAid and here is some photographic evidence of just what that means! Congratulations and Thanks to All! Stunning! If you are interested in knowing more about EducAid’s work with vulnerable young Sierra Leoneans, please go to www.educaid.org.uk

Packing and checking in preparation for the great end of term despatch!. The gold certificate winners – each has been awarded at least 90 merits – Great Achievement!All the certificate recipients at the end of term assembly. Well done all!Looking back to my school days, I am amazed at the contrast between me and my…

Happy traveller to be, Moses Tholley. Founder pupil, Moses Tholley, in his penultimate year of engineering studies at the Fourah Bay College, is on his way to Poland for a 6 month work experience placement. Having come close on several occasions, but not being willing to participate in the required corruption, it was looking as…

The human conveyor belt and concrete mixers went into action once again and Rolal’s new Senior Secondary School has a new ceiling / first floor. An enormous team of water carriers, cooks, cement fetchers, concrete mixers, concrete shovelers, concrete passers, concrete squashers and flatteners were mobilised by Dunia and the Rolal staff. Parents, students, staff…

Great planning session with a transformed leadership team. From a group of self-constraining self-doubters the leadership team has metamorphosised into a dynamic team of people who are genuinely proud to be making a difference to their country through their work with EducAid. They are proud of the changes in their own professional status and capacity…

A very happy Musa ready for his adventure and a complete transformation of his life. Engineering : ) Fantastic news – Musa Koroma is now our fourth EducAid student to be selected for an international scholarship. He is due to go to Russia for the new academic year to study engineering. We greatly appreciate the…

Grim skin lurgy 1. Grim skin lurgy 1 again. Grim skin lurgy 2. Grim skin lurgy 2 again. Days shared in almost equal parts between hope, despair, delight, beauty, sweat, dust, anger, sadness, frustration and awe. I must be back in Sierra Leone. 10 months ago tomorrow we lost Alhassan. I still can’t believe I…

”Hi Miriam, I have the honour of writing to inform you that Educaid are the winners of the Rafiki Photo Contest! Congratulations! The whole team loved that the students drew the Rafiki logo. It was a wonderful touch. Your prize is up to £150 of technological gear for your classroom. Congratulations again! Best,Renee” Always good…

Graduation Day – Congratulations on the wonderful achievement! He’s usually a lot smilier than this – must have been the awe of the occasion!When EducAid first started its own school on 18th September, 2000 with 20 assorted youngsters, on the back veranda of a house I rented, Ezekiel was one of the founding pupils. He…