By Sarah Armstrong/Rev. George/Joseph Lamboi | Director and Program Director In-Country
A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa Continues to Make a Difference – Helping Sierra Leone get through the Ebola Crisis
As of December 2015, the school you are supporting has completed two "new" terms of the academic year. Recall that schools were closed weh the Ebola crisis was at its worst but in April, the Ministry of Education Science and Technology was firm in decision sure that schools in Sierra Leone could be re-opened. This great move was accepted by all educational institutions. Mallory Jansen Memorial School of Children of the Nations was one of the fortunate schools to re-open.
We send our thanks for this great opportunity given to our school especially for the help from our donors who are helping in their own little way by sending money. Our school-going children are able to eat beause of A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa (BTA) that benefits our children in their daily lunch at school.
This nutritious food is helping them in their holistic life. We continue to see that the quality of education is improving as teachers are fully teaching the students. As we went through the first term, the children that were fearing not to come to school because of the Ebola virus are now prepared to come to school every day. Provision of health security was made by the Ministry such as thermometers for temperature checking and hand washing stations which was done on a daily basis in school.
Children that are coming from distant communities are now regular in school because they hope to have a good learning environment and good food before they go home. The total enrollment in the school is 1,057 pupils with a total number of 40 teachers that are fully employed by Children of the Nations SL organization.
During the crisis, the children of Mallory Jansen School were getting gifts and dry rations. They were given radios, notebooks, pens, and other learning materials, thanks to A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa.
Once school reopened, the months were full of effective learning for our children. This helped them to do their assessment test and examinations to move to another level. Parents are very grateful whenever they visit the schools seeing their children healthy and doing well in school.
The BTA food meal has been extended to other branch schools such as Mokpangumba and Mosenesie schools. The children of these schools are very happy that they too are eating good meals like the Ngolala school.
Many prayers are being offered by children in their devotions for our donors in providing food for their livelihood and making them active when they are in school. They also pray for Aunty Sarah Armstrong for the efforts and assistance that she has made it possible for such a good feeding program in Sierra Leone.
Joseph BK Lamboi, National Education Supervisor provided the information for this report
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