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Where Do You Fit In?

Next time you're taking part in a fun run, school challenge or other fundraising event, choose us as your charitable cause. Or raise funds for one of our school's projects in Sierra Leone.


You can contribute to any of the following:

  1. Reference Library Project ongoing support - texts, journals, multimedia, learning materials, general knowledge reference books, African and caribbean literature, etc.

  2. Teacher Training and Teaching Standards Project - sponsorship of teachers' distance training scholarships @ approximately £135 per teacher per year including admission and examination fees

  3. Curriculum Development and Raising Standards Project - volunteers needed in UK, or internationally to work from home assisting with liason with the school, collating school records and statistics, performance and attainment target setting, culturally relevant lesson planning suitable for West African Education Council curricula (available online) and IGCSE curricula, introduction and promotion of interactive teaching methods, lesson handouts, etc., etc.

  4. 10kw Solar Power Supply Project - solar panels, deep cycle batteries, solar panels, controllers, regulators, solar panels, more deep cycle batteries, wiring, other supplies and er, solar panels.

  5. Science Labs (chemistry, physics and biology) Projects - an autoclave, a distillation unit, a fume cupboard, metal storage cupboards, gas cylinders (available locally), bunsen burners, pippets, testtubes, beakers and other glasswear, plumbing, water tank, freezer, and all chemicals and other consumables. Simple metalworking, wood working and electrical repair tools, soldering irons, sinewave monitors, other physics lab equipment, (mass, forces, magnetism, electricity, etc etc )

  6. Chapel rehabilitation - funds to assist local community matching funds requirement

  7. Workshops rehabilitation - all heavy-duty wood and metal working tools, equipment, bench saws, measuring tools, workbenches, drills, furniture, 7kw or greater diesel generator, etc etc

  8. Staff quarters rehabilitation - funds for paint, window glass, carpentry, cieling works, or a volunteer carpenters' time (after ebola epidemic, best estimate March April 2015)

  9. gender project - various volunteers to assist in different tasks from development of project, research, community outreach, student outreach, development of services, grant fundraising, integrating programme into community and into school culture, etc

  10. Agricultural, environment and honey bee project - we urgently need a volunteer botanist ( some expenses may be paid) with knowledge of tropical flora to conduct preliminary research on biodiversity within and surrounding the school.​​

We have other roles and funding needs so please contact us with volunteering offers or offers of partial funding. There are very few skills we dont need.

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