​About YOSA International

 

​​​​​YOSA International is a coalition of international and Sierra Leone based YOSA alumni associations, Yengema Secondary School alumni, ex-teachers, current teachers, the school's administration, friends of the school, local  councillors, and the Diocese of Kenema - working in partnership to advance, support and rehabilitate learning and wellbeing at the school. ​​

 

Coalition members are based in Sierra Leone, USA, UK, South Africa, Kenya, the EU and Canada, and our partners SLIP are based in Ireland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Objectives

 

• ​Engage with former students, teachers and friends of the school and increase membership of the association.

• Engage in programmes and activities that create institutional pride in the school and that serve to develop and enhance the school’s public image.​

• Advance education and raise standards of education, teaching and achievement at the school.

• Engage with Bishops, local Pastors, Spiritans, Christian Brothers with a challenge to reassert meaningful Church patronage, support and oversight of schools such as YSS.

• ​Promote gender and social equality at the school, to remove or reduce barriers to education, especially for girls.

• ​Promote good governance, leadership and management of YSS.

• ​Provide support and resources for the rehabilitation and development of the school’s infrastructure, and the development of educational services

• ​Promote parental and community involvement in the school, and to promote community involvement and outreach by the school

• ​Establish and encourage partnerships between the school and schools in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the rest of the EU

• ​Promote teaching of the Kono culture, history and language, and other ethnic groups’ culture, history and languages at the school to enhance community cohesion.

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Prominent Coalition members  

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• YOSA Sierra Leone

• YOSA Phase Two Sierra Leone

• YOSA USA

• YOSA UK

• Yengema Secondary School, Kono (Principal and board of governors)

• Vicar General Father Kumasi (Kenema Diocese)

• Councillor Abel Kounday Fallah (Kono District Council)

• Councillor Aiah Moses Sandi (Kono District Council)

• The late Eddie Finnegan (Sierra Leone Irish Partnership, and Finnegan Family Fund)

• Professor Moses Bockarie (EDCTP, South Africa)

• Sahr Yambasu, former Sierra Leone ambassador to the Russian Federation

• Lansana Marah

• Archbishop of Freetown Tamba Charles

• Hon Balogun Koroma 

• and many more alumni

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We hope to add more members and partners soon as they come on board

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