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Spiritan Academy Secondary School Bo East
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This co-educational secondary school was opened in 2012 by Spiritans (Holy Ghost Fathers) of the Catholic Church to provide quality education for school-going children in the ever-growing communities of Bo East, Sierra Leone; an area several miles away from where most of the secondary schools are in Bo. Over 76% of the children are from poor and non-Catholic families. The school continues to produce very good results at public examinations. Last year, the school had one of the best BECE results in Bo.
Problems:
1) Every year, the school refuses to admit hundreds of school-going children from communities in the Bo East area because of an acute shortage of classrooms. Our pupils are jam-packed in the school’s four classrooms. For example, there are 89 JSS 2 pupils in a 17ft wide and 22ft long classroom. Thus, we urgently need to have more classrooms.
2) Out of 340 pupils, 197 are girls and 143 are boys. This is one of the few co-educational schools in Bo District where girls are always in the majority. Thus, we need to support the education of more children (especially girls) from poor families.
Project: The Construction of a 3-Storey 12 Classroom Block
In response to the above-mentioned problems, the school administration has embarked on the construction of a 3-storey 12 classroom block to increase on the learning space so we can accommodate more pupils. We have already completed blockwork on the ground floor, and now aiming at doing the suspended slab on the said floor and the other two floors. It is estimated that the remaining work costs about a total of $39,285 to complete the facility. While we remain keen on providing quality and affordable education for kids in this community, our limited source of income has made it impossible to continue the said construction work. It is at this point that we are reaching out to a global community that seeks to promote education, especially in deprived communities like the Bo East community. Your support will enable us provide the much-desired quality and affordable education these kids need. It is amazing how your support will contribute to raising a whole community out of poverty. We are counting on you as a partner in this project. Together we can do it for the Bo East community. Thanking you in anticipation.
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The Ground Floor is near Completion
Organizer and beneficiary
Spiritan Academy Bo Sierra Leone
Organizer
Stockbridge, GA
Francis Berewa
Beneficiary