To date we have built and staffed the Alberta Canada Primary School in Ro-Mano Village, Sierra Leone, and have almost completed both an extension for this school to accommodate the large number of students, and a junior high school for the next level of community education. The school was built for 300 students and currently has 605 students and 8 teachers, a Head Master, a School Administrator and a School Inspector.

Land for a community health centre has been purchased, two community gardens feed the village and teachers live in a house which used to belong to the parents of Memunatu Dura Kamara, our project coordinator. The living quarters for teachers are cramped and inadequate and their salaries were delayed at several intervals throughout the year. Due to our fundraising efforts however, we have been able to pay all 8 of our current teaching staff for all their work and have sufficient funds to continue their salaries until the end of September 2006, in spite of money transfer delays. We provided basic school supplies and uniforms for all current students and made contributions of food-for-work to on-site administrators and workers to partially compensate for their building and coordinating work. Supplies were purchased in both Freetown, Sierra Leone and Conakry, Guinea via 22 volunteers who coordinated efforts and carried out the necessary tasks.

We are proud of our fundraising efforts as they have expanded from Memunatu Dura Kamara’s individual efforts to include group fundraisers, individual efforts to support the project and response from the greater Edmonton community.

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