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Some pressing issues:

1Every year, our junior secondary students that pass BECE in the provinces have to come to Freetown to continue their education with EducAid.  This is creating an ever-growing pressure on resources in Freetown.  When we can afford to build and run a senior secondary school in the Port Loko District this will reduce the tension considerably.

2We operate in Freetown in a building using all the available land near Alhassan’s house i.e. his mother’s vegetable garden.  The premises are cramped for the numbers and there is no facility for sports, agriculture or even break time.  When we get the land and funding we will build a purpose built school with appropriate space for all activities, further up into the Lumley hills.

3Every year, students sit and pass their senior secondary public exams, WASSCE.  And, every year many of them fail to get sponsorship that would take them on to further studies.  We have a programme whereby ex-EducAid students, as ‘junior staff’, give their service to the schools in return for a stipend plus food.  This can be a springboard for further sponsorship to tertiary level study but it is not guaranteed.  We desperately need to find reliable sponsorship systems so that we can assist these youngsters to fulfill their real potential and be in position to really change the country and control their own lives.

4We have files full of requests to start EducAid schools in communities around Sierra Leone and the reality is that we see the need.  If we could, we would start other schools so that we could help more youngsters attain a good education.

If the money is forthcoming, this is where our attention will be!

........Other Plans in Dream status.......

Have a fleet of mobile resource centres [Landrovers with all the gear and resources in + camping gear for two or three].  These could go anywhere in Sierra Leone and park up in a town for a couple of weeks at a time, according to a pre-prepared schedule and, against identified specific needs, run short courses, show videos, organise debates, provide access to key resources and more for secondary school students and staff.

Start a teacher training college where good practice is modelled and taught.  Teaching teachers affects more youngsters than any other activity.

Start an Academy of Excellence specially targeting highly intelligent youngsters who could, with the right input, be the leaders of tomorrow.  The Academy would run based on the most cutting edge principles in curriculum developed focusing on the development of skills and attitudes in a really well equipped environment.

Start a clinic with treatment which is free at the point of delivery that can be run by ex-EducAidians post qualification as doctors.  This permits them to stay in the country as they will be able to do good work and still be paid a living wage as well as providing a vital service within the community.  Hopefully this would be done by linking to a teaching hospital which could also assist in on-going specialist training.  Medical care, or the lack of it, is the real face of poverty in Sierra Leone.