New FREE School Building, Right on Track!
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We just thought we would send a few images from the site of the new ‘FREE’ school in the Ober-Funkia, district of Goderich, near Freetown.
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OCT 2025 UPDATE 1
Our new JSS1 intake receiving uniforms, and other, materials.
JULY 2025 UPDATE 1
UNICEF, through the Ministry of Basic Education, donated First Aid kits to the Extra Mile Secondary School after three days of training of selective school staff within the Western Rural District. The items were presented by Mr Abdul Nice Sesay the School Supervisor, and received by the Principal Wusu Kargbo and Catherine Freeman. Many thanks for continued recognition by the Ministry of Basic Education.
APRIL 2025 UPDATE 2
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Madam Olayemi Platt, a senior community stakeholder for donating to the school a mini solar lamp in support of our pupils (SSS3) who are staying in school to prepare for their examinations. Her generosity is very much appreciated. The school administration has always been grateful to Miss Pratt for the steadfast commitment to our Extra Mile school
Blog from volunteer Craig Gaffney
/Our latest volunteer Craig Gaffney will be out in Sierra Leone for the next 6 months and he has been regularly - well, regularly for SIerra Leone - updating his personal blog from Goderich.
Read MoreA tough place to learn!
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As Martin Smidman prepared for his two-week, Extra Mile programme at Agape ‘Experimental’ School in Sierra Leone there were the inevitable, crucial enquiries, such as, ‘how long are the lessons?’ and ‘how big are the classes?’.
Read MoreNot even a test tube!
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A colleague handed an advert, in a teacher magazine, to Claire Lintern in 2010. She applied to become a volunteer with Extra Mile and taught at Bishop Jane Middleton High School in Goderich, Sierra Leone.
Read MoreTim’s fourth Extra Mile programme, ‘inspirational’
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Tim Feast’s fourth education programme, since 2009 with Extra Mile, in Sierra Leone has been exceptional.
Read MoreNo, really, every pupil had a pen!!!
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Since her return to the UK in June 2012 when Dr. Jane Bentham had worked at Services Secondary School, Juba, in Sierra Leone, she has been working hard to continue her work for Extra Mile, by raising funds for its work in this small West African republic.
Read MoreClaire’s stay in Goderich
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Well, I’ve been here now since September and in many ways its only feels like a week! Yet in other ways it’s now home and I can’t imagine being anywhere else.
Read MoreChloe’s 120 mph Skydive for Extra Mile
/Chloe Ennis, an 17 year old arts student from King Edward VI College, studying A Level Media, Art, Textiles and Photography, and Sandy Wright’s granddaughter, will be soaring from 12,000 feet at speeds of 120 mph in a 5 minute tandem skydive on her 18th. birthday in April 13.
Read MoreJanuary begins.... (from current volunteer Claire Lintern)
/HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Don’t know about you but I can’t believe it’s a new year already..... So much has changed some good some bad as always.
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