Sierra Leone’s health and medical care is woefully inadequate, reflected in the extraordinary mortality statistics.

Augustine and Ibrahim, having achieved excellent grades in their senior secondary public exams, have both entered the College of Medicine and Health Studies to train as doctors.  It is a long and challenging task in any country.  In Sierra Leone it is doubly so with resources being meagre, the correct books hard to come by and corrupt lecturers a commonplace.

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Augustine Bundor [left] was living down the road from EducAid and sleeping on a disused freezer when he first came to the school.  He is highly intelligent and very hard-working.  On completion of his senior secondary studies he served for 2 years as a voluntary member of junior staff in Rolal and in that sense it was a great loss to the teaching staff when he gained sponsorship into the College of Medicine.  A friend of EducAid has taken the responsibility of paying his fees and maintenance and we wish him every luck. 

Ibrahim Fofanah [right] came to us having given up hope of finishing his education.  His father who was blind [he has since died] was incapable of raising the money for school fees.  Another very intelligent young man for whom it would have been criminal to think his education would top out at the equivalent of Yr 8 [12 yr old standard].  Ibrahim too served as a junior member of staff and was there identified as someone well worth sponsoring.  Another friend of EducAid has made this possible.

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