Three Communities Primary School Project

This Fall we will kick off Phase 1 of the Rogbomtama, Mabene, and Mamama primary school project to construct a nine-room structure with six-room toilet stalls. The structure will have six classrooms, an office, a library, and a storage facility.

These communities are located in the Port Loko district, Koya Chiefdom, Sierra Leone, and do not have a functioning school; therefore, the children do not attend school. Ninety-five percent of the habitants are illiterate. Despite their circumstances, they understand the value of education and want their children to be able to read and write and lead a better life. There are approximately 95 school-age children (50 boys and 45 girls) who live in these communities. The residents of these communities rely on fishing and farming for their livelihood and shared the same characteristics as Tumba village.

Initially, we planned to construct the primary school in Rogbomtama village, but the elders of the village informed us that the surrounding communities do not have a school as well. Therefore, they have invited the elders of those communities to discuss the possibility of building one school to be accessed by all the children in the surrounding areas. At the meeting, they agreed to pull their limited resources together and chose a location, of equal walking distance for the children, to construct the school.

For the construction of the school, they agreed to provide unskilled labor, land for the school construction, sand, stone, water, and sticks. The communities are very excited and looking forward to the start of the project.

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