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Sokoya school construction project

Many of the school going children in the rural areas in Africa are not opportune to attend school due to many reasons ranging from lack of school facilities to enabling environment to do so. Most of these communities are also very poor. This has resulted to high illiteracy rate and backwardness in these areas. Sokoya Village, a little community in the Tonkolili District, northern Sierra Leone is no exception. It is very close to the gold mining area and it houses many miners, farmers, etc. and their children from many parts of the country, with a total population of over three hundred. Out of the hundred or more children in this community, only few of them who have relatives in big towns are able to continue attending school to other village schools. Over 60 girls and 40 boys in this community and its environs cannot attend formal school. It is very risky for the remaining children to attend the distance schools in the chiefdom headquarter towns considering the long distances, fear of rape cases and lack of care and sufficient food in the distant communities.

Expected Outcome and Impact

Overall Goal of the Project:

To provide a conducive learning environment for children in Sokoya community and its environs by 2020.

Project Objectives:

ongoing Construction of a school building with a pit latrines and staff quarters for the Head Teacher

• Provide teaching and learning materials for the pupils.

Indicators for project objective 1.

• At the end of the project, a four-classroom building with an office space for the Head Teacher and Staff room would have been built.
• A well protected water well and pit latrines would have been constructed.

Indicators for project objective 2.

• At the end of the project 300 desks and benches for the pupils, 15 tables and an executive table for the Head Teacher, 6 black/chalk boards and 6 attendance registers would have been provided through the help of your donations.
• 3,000 exercise books, 3,000 pens and pencils, and text books for the core subjects, including foot balls and games tunics would have been provided for the pupils
• 85% of the targeted underprivileged children in Sokoya community and its environs getting remedial/formal education qualify for formal education at Primary school level.

Project Activities:

The following are the proposed main project activities:

Activities Associated with the construction of the school building:

• The community has provided the site for the construction of the school, pit latrines, water wells and staff quarters for the Head Teacher.
• The community has also provided some of the local materials as part of their contribution and demonstration of commitment and ownership.
• Preparation of the site plan and other documents.
• Purchase and transportation of the building materials will be provided through your donations.
• Molding of the building blocks has already started.
• Construction of the buildings to wall height are currently ongoing.
• Roofing, ceiling, plastering and painting of the buildings will be provided with your donation.
• Digging of the pits for the latrines and the water well will be dug,
• Construction and protection of the latrines and water well.
• Furnishing of the staff quarters.

Activities Associated with the provision of teaching and learning materials:

• Purchase of the school furniture like desks, benches, tables, chalk/black boards.
• Purchase the items associated with teaching materials such as the, attendance registers and learning materials like books, pens, pencils, erasers, mathematical sets, text books, etc.
• Distribution of the learning materials to the pupils and actual learning process.

It is hoped that the school going children in this community and its environs will be able to acquire basic education that will help develop them and their communities when as school facility and conducive learning environment is provided. This will also curb crime rate when the minds of these children are orientated towards their development aspirations.

The potential Key target beneficiaries are the school going children in the Sokoya community and its environs who are willing to attend school but do not have the opportunity to do so, regardless of sex or tribe. A total of 300 (120 boys and 180 girls) will be targeted since each classroom can only accommodate a maximum of 50 pupils.

Please consider making a donation to this project so that vulnerable kids in this community can acquire basic education.

Through your support we can able to complete the construction of this school.