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Extra Mile Charity, a UK based registered charity - no. 1190876 - began in 2009 to coordinate teachers from around the world volunteering to work in schools located in deprived areas of Sierra Leone. From this came the idea of building a free school for children whose very poor families’ could not afford their education. Funded by UK based Trustees and volunteers the school was opened in 2016 and now has close to 200 students. In 2022 “The Extra Mile Ober Funkia Community Secondary School” was awarded the National Examination Awards Certificate for “Outstanding Performance” for achieving second in the country for its results in the West African school leaving exams. There are still buildings to complete but the school is thriving and looking forward to serving the community for many years to come. Please help by donating to the Extra Mile Charity and ensuring the long term future of our school. We have also set up an appeal to help finance our students’ breakfasts. Please take a look at the Donate page for more details.

Our 1st Foundation and Celebration Event - FEBRUARY 2025

Extra Mile Charity School Celebrates 1st Foundation and Thanksgiving – Africa24 Newspaper

Follow the link above to read a full account of our Foundation and Celebration Event.

SCHOOL TEACHING STAFF 2024-2025

We are so fortunate in having a group of wonderful ladies at RMCC who have been hand-making our re-usable sanitary pad packs now for several years. The packs are attractively designed and the quality of workmanship is excellent. Our girls in school feel so confident and so dignified when they start using their packs, and their faces are a treat to behold. What a wonderful team. We thank them so much for their kind, voluntary work which helps our girls, and their mums in one if the poorest parts of Sierra Leone where abject ‘period poverty’ is rife. We cannot see the transformation but we know this work has and will continue to make such a difference to their lives. Thank you again ladies.          

.Momoh's Courage!!

Earlier this year Momoh Metzer was studying for his WASSCE and hoping to qualify for university. Sadly both he and three other pupils from the Extra Mile School were let down by a nation-wide IT failure. This meant he was not able to sit his exams this year. But rather than feeling sorry for himself during his year-long wait, he's working even harder with the aim of achieving top grades but also he's helping the school by teaching some of the younger pupils as well. Momoh what a brilliant example you are to others. Well done, and we wish you every success.