Schools for Salone

Partner Program
with

Junctionla School

July 2008 - Junctionla Project Completed & Other News

7/22/2008 - We celebrate the beginning of a Partnership Program with Books For Africa to send our 1st container of 22,000 books to Sierra Leone, with an ultimate goal of 1,000,000 books.

7/14/2008 - Opening Ceremonies were held at Junctionla Priamary School with Ishmael Beah attending. More photos will be coming soon.

7/11/2008 - Funding for a well project in Sembehun, has been generously donated by Richard Sabo.

7/5/2008 - Schools for Salone became an official 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt organization ! Now you can make tax free Donations directly to Schools for Salone.

7/1/2008 - Joseph reported that the school at Junctionla is completed, one well is finished and the other is nearly done.

June 2008 - Junctionla Project Update

6/17/2008 - Leslie Mboka, project coordinator, reported, "The three immediate communities benefiting from this project are very much happy that an old-age dream has finally come to pass. According to these communities, Lungi, Gangama and Junctionla, they wanted this opportunity since 1954, so them this project is a model and a darlyn. Handing over the school to the communities during the next visit of Ishmael in July will be really great."

6/5/2008 - Ishmael Beah recently returned from a trip to Sierra Leone to visit his home village and the Schools for Salone project he is funding at Junctionla. "It was a wonderful trip. I love my home, the people, the feeling and food. I was also saddened by the conditions in Mogbwemo due to the mining company. I witnessed people fighting for dirty water and so on. It seems the conditions there have gotten worse since i was child living in that area."

May 2008 - Junctionla Project Report from Joseph Lamin

School building-
Wall height completed, 30 pillars completed, tie beam completed, 3 gables built, wooden trusts done on the ground, to be erected when beams are cured. Preparing facaial boards and polies for roofing.
Half of the furniture is completed.

Water well 1-
Digging completed at the depth of 30 feet ( 10 metres)
Conctre lining 15 feets done
Concrete slab done waiting to be cured

Water well 2-
Tools tranfered to the identified site by Leslie and others
Digging done up to 8 feet

April 2008 -

Ground breaking ceremony was held in Junctionla for Ishmael's school in mid April.

Aspen Community Charter School in Woody Creek, Colorado raised $500 for Ishmael to take to Junctionla for school supplies.

February 2008 -

Cindy Nofziger and friends from Schools for Salone traveled to Sierra Leone to open and dedicate 3 more completed primary schools: Buma, Masanga and Sahn.

Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars performed concert in Aspend, Colorado for the benefit of Schools for Salone.

The Student Council of Lowell School in Seattle, Washington raised over $1300 for school and recreational supplies for Schools for Salone.

Acequia Madre Elementary School in Santa Fe, New Mexico raised over $1000 for school supplies for Schools for Salone.

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