Challenges For NEI-SL

KEY CHALLENGES

Our Challenges in Education

Sierra Leone is a republican state located along the west coast of Africa, and it has over 7 million inhabitants. Unfortunately, only 43.21% of this population is literate; 10% out of the 43.21% represents the foreign nationals. Sierra Leone became an independent state on the 27th day of April 1961.

Today, when you travel to the countryside parts of Sierra Leone, where you can reach big towns and villages located at reasonable distances on the forest floor, you will doubtlessly find hundreds and hundreds of school-age-children there who are not going to school. Indeed, out of every 500 school-age-children you meet there, only 2% attend school, the rest are kept at home by their respective rural poor parents for house chores and village communal labourers.

Besides, the problems of high level of illiteracy, you will further discover that the locals there, class dismissed, do suffer seriously from abject poverty, acute food shortage, poor infrastructure, poor health and unfortunate housing conditions.

 No jokes about it, there are lot of dilapidated dwellings possibly erected far back the dawn of civilization, and these structures now appear like falling objects that may collapse at any time during the night and kill dozens of dwellers, including children, nursing mothers, pregnant women and housebound poor. It is for this reason that NEI-SL is designed to address the problems which these locals face, and further work in the priorities of improving education, agriculture, social and economic states of being in their rural communities of the country.

Of course it is not a boast, but takes it for certain that NEI-SL is one of the rural community development organizations that have so far come up with this kind of innovative idea to redeem the rural poor masses in the country on gratis.

 Since we formed NEI-SL in 2022, we have used, as we are still using the organization’s income to assist the rural poor majority in Sierra Leone. We admonish community leaders and people to have primary schools respectively in their localities, where their school-age-children will attend and get the required basic education, as a way of reducing the unfortunate high population of their school-age-children who are not going to school. Besides,   we at the same time empower the rural poor farmers and animate them to engage in self-help diversified food production farming and gardening, that will in-turn bring them enough food and reliable income, so that they  will be able to finally stop the daily struggles which they face to get their basic human needs.

Clear evidence of these claims is proven in
the pictures below

Since we founded NEI-SL in 2022, we have so far been able to get six rural communities that are running primary schools respectively. As you can see from the pictures below, these communities are using structures which appear like falling objects. Our challenge is to have international donor organizations and charity to partner with and construct school buildings, provide educational materials and scholarship for them. They have acres of land, but they lack the financial capacity to build schools where their school-age-children will attend. These communities include the Buma-Samie Community; Kondiama Community; Dandabu community; Kortumahun Community; Mondorkor community; Limba Community; and the Niagorehun Community.

Buma-Samie community
Kondiama Community

The above pictures exhibit just few learning environments with deplorable schools which now appear like falling objects; which NEI-SL has decided to help. Children in these clientele communities attend open-air classes as a result, when the atmosphere is not conducive especially during the rainy season there is no school and this further dampens the improvement of reliable basic education system.

The above is just one group of the hundreds of school-age-children in only one village on the forest floor. Our challenge is to see to it too that these yet unfortunate kids attend school so that they will become state functionaries in the future.

Mr. Joseph Kambai exhibits a remarkable hard working Teacher

Mr. Joseph Kambai is the only Teacher of Ansarul Islamic Primary School at Kondiama village in the Bagbwe chiefdom, one of our clientele rural communities. After the collapsed of one of their only two (2) school buildings which was constructed long ago by the community members after the senseless rebel war ended, shown in the pictures below the existing school building is made up of two classrooms and a two section of open-air sitting accommodation continually existing as classrooms which augment the total of four (4) classes and he is the only one that teaches all.