AUGUST 2020 UPDATE 2

They have been waiting all year. Our 18 NPSE students taking their national exams with students from other local schools in Goderich.

All the revision pays off hopefully.

Thanks to generous support from St James’ Place and Rotary Clubs around Rugby our new science laboratory is beginning to take shape in time to be ready for academic year 2020-21.. Few local secondary schools have science labs, so we hope these new facilities will help to inspire all our budding doctors, nurses, engineers, agrologists etc, all of whom are desperately needed in SierraLeone.

At this time of the year (the rainy season) schools are often closed for the summer holidays in Sierra Leone. Owing to the government’s requirements for examination classes to continue, staff asked Extra Mile if the charity could provide rain gear, not only to enable them to get to school in a fit state to teach but also to help staff who have continued to distribute materials to those students not required to be in school. See some of the school’s happy staff who have been issued with protective rain gear.

We thank St Richards’ Catholic Primary School in Chichester for keeping Extra Mile in their thoughts. Particular thanks to Marysia Dembinski, the school librarian, and James Field, Headteacher for the generous donation of reading and reference books, pens, pencils and other stationary useful for our school.

We thank all of our supporters, both individual and institutional, for their on-going assistance in all its shapes and sizes, which helps to sustain Extra Mile in its mission to poor and vulnerable children in Sierra Leone. Keep safe.