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How We Help: Current Project

Mamaka School Project 

 Our First Project

Your Donations will go to rebuild the Mamaka School

The Mamaka School was the sturdiest building in the village of Mamaka in the Tonkolili district. It served as a two room school for more than 600 children ages 5 to 12 for nine surrounding villages. Because of the tremendous rains that Sierra Leone endures from May to November, the school also served as the town hall.

Town meetings were held there, weddings, celebrations and large community gatherings. As the sturdiest building it was a stronghold for the RUF during the civil war in Sierra Leone. During heavy fighting, the school was destroyed.

Currently, all 600 children are trying to get an education in these two makeshift bamboo shelters. These resilient children are eager to get back their lives. These thatched roofs will not withstand the coming rainy season and school will have to be suspended for them yet again.

The Mamaka Village elders, parents and teachers had formed their own association, (Mamaka Community Developement Association), to begin the rebuilding process and reached out to J. Albert Kamara (President, SLVP) to raise support and money for the project in the United States. We initially raised $4,000 for the project, and in February of 2007 Albert went to Mamaka to oversee the rebuilding process.

With the money that we raised, the village was able to puchase the supplies it needed to raze the ruins of the old school, lay the foundation for the new school and make cement bricks for its sturdy walls.

The New Mamaka School will be fully outfitted for plumbing and electricity. It will have nine rooms so that grade levels can be seperated and learn at a faster pace. It will have a seperate room for meetngs with the town elders and government. With help from you we can raise the rest of the money needed to provide Mamaka with the necessary supplies needed for cement and a roof.

We would like to thank everyone who has already helped us in getting this far.