"Build a school for rural community" is a project which seeks to provide educational facility for Gandorhun community in the Kpanga Krim Chiefdom, Pujehun District, Southern Sierra Leone, West Africa. The project seeks to put up a 1No. 6-unit Classrooms block, 1No.1-Unit Administrative Block, 2 No. 4-unit VIP latrine rooms and 1No.1 water-well with hand-pump facilities to help improve the social well-being of children from the above mentioned community.
There is a very large population of primary school graduates discovered in this community who are not attending Junior secondary schools, and majority of their parents represent the rural poor. Every 500 of these children you meet, only 10% attends junior school, the balance are kept at home by their poor and illiterate parents for house chores and village communal laborers. Even the 10% that attends school, only 2% is girls.
a) A 6-Unit classroom block, Administrative Block, 2 No.4-unit VIP latrine rooms and 1 water-well with hand-pump facility built for Gandorhun community, b) Children from this community are in school at the school going time and days but not in the farm. c) Children between the ages of 8-17 years and even lower do not walk 4.4 kilometers to access school. d) The community's negative perception about education is changed. e) Social well-being of children from this community have improved.
i. Reduce the high population of primary school graduates who are just kept at home for house chores and village communal laborer, by constructing a convenient and signalized school compound that will attract at least 90% of the primary graduates of this community to attend school; ii. To sensitize 95% of school-age-girls against early marriage; commercial sex work and related practices of red-light district dwellers; iii. Reduce to zero the mortality rate of teenage girls who often die of labor
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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