Santigie Koroma- STORY

My name is Santigie Koroma; I live in Makathay community- Bombali District (Village) the northern part of Sierra Leone.
I am attending the Makathay Primary school, I am in class 6, and I am 16 years old.
I am one of the orphans that are suffering in the light of the war; I have a little support from Mr. John who is helping to pay our school fees for orphans.
I stay with my step mother, I almost do everything in the house, I have one brother ad 1 sister, but they stay with our uncle in the same village.
Our school needs help in school materials ad we also needs partners to connect with to help us with some school materials.
It will be more grateful for people to think about the village school learning, and to find ways help or support us.
My hobbies I like most is reading.

STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL- DURING A CLASS WORK

THE ORPHANS IN THE SCHOOL

THE SCHOOL BUILDING

story by (ANSUMANA G. KOROMA)

My name is Ansumana G. Koroma; I lived in Makathay village (Bombali District) the northern part of Sierra Leone. I live with my mother, 3 sisters 1 brother, I lost my father in 2005, from the time my father dead my mother did not marriage again; she is the only one struggle for our survival.
I am presently attending the Makathay Primary School, I am in class six (6) and I am 15 years old.
in the school we are going on with a lot of constrains such as school materials like Reading books, pencils, pen, tables, chairs etc. in the school we have few teacher that are trying very hard for our success.
The life of Makathay village is very difficult to live, because there is no electricity, no pure water facilities etc.
I like to mingle with friends.
My hobbies I like is reading books and playing football.

Brief: INTRODUCING THE MAKATHAY COMMUNITY

The Makathay community is a small village in Bombali district in the northern part of Sierra Leone, which consists of 52 houses. Four of the houses have mix-up type of paint and the balance has no paint. Majority have that village pattern of building house, they don’t have tap, and they only have wells wherethey fetch water to wash, cook, and drink and also for domestic use.The Makathay community has a lot of fruit sticks, the community also has a lot of farmers, they woke up early to get to their farm andthey have a large such as rice farm, potatoes and cassava leaves farmgroundnut farms etc.

E-mail: makathayprimaryschool@gmail.com

Freetown, Sierra Leone

BACK GROUND INFORMATION OF THE SCHOOL

The Makathay Primary School was founded on the 18th September 1992 by one head teacher Mrs. Daisy H. Thoronka to help minimized the high level of Illiteracy in the Makathay community- Bombali District- Northern part of Sierra Leone, she started with few pupils and later the numbers of pupils start to grow. They where using the old church building to conduct classes, they where on it for ten years before a building of 4 (four) classrooms were constructed. The building was constructed and finance by the late Pa. Kandeh Kalokoh. Since then that building was used by the school.

One of the problem we where having was that the classes only stop in class four (IV) if the children promote to class five (v) their parent have to transfer them to Kalangba School which is about three (3) miles from Makathay.

We came to the conclusion that the idea of our children transferring to Kalangba School to continue their primary school should stop. What we did was to build a make-shift structure to accommodate the classes Five (5) and Six (6) this structure was finance by us.

On that note, we need finance to put up a two building to accommodate classes five (5) and six (6) respectively and also staff room and a small office for the Head Teacher for administrative work. Also considering the face that present structure is in a total state of disrepair, we will also need to do some repair. The school lack of teachers. Presently among the three teachers we have two are paid by government, while the one is paid by us because of the late approval by the ministry of education.

SCHOOL NEEDS

It is very crucial for children in poor condition to have better education with no support. The school have 12 orphans that are suffering in the light of the war, most of them they burnt their village houses. The school is going on with a lot of constrain like school materials such as reading books, chairs, tables, chalks, pens , pencils structure of the building, generator and computer. They need support in all this for the children to have a better education in Makathay Community School, because children are the life of the world and the key to success. In the school they normally speak their native language such as LOKO AND KRIO; they speak and write English 70%. But the teachers are trying very hard for them to have the world favorite that is English. The school is playing a vital rolled to enrolled children life for a brighter future. The school needs partners to collaborate with and help generate funds or materials for the local Makathay primary school.

E- mail: makathayprimaryschool@gmail.com

Freetown, Sierra Leone