In a bid to compliment government’s efforts in the development of education in the country, Sierra Leone Aid Initiative with its Motto Educating Future Leaders has donated assorted learning materials to over three hundred pupils of the KDEC Primary School at Nemesedu village in Kaama chiefdom Kono district.
Country Director Sierra Leone Aid Initiative, Theresa Rose said the organisation is undertaking this to help the less privileged school children with school materials in order to make them stay in school and be educated.
According to her, they have distributed school materials to several less privileged children in selected schools across the country including the Western areas in Freetown.
The gestures were also extended with the donation of assorted foods items to the Network for Children in Need Orphanage home at Furniture junction by Mayieme Old Road in Freetown and the Betty Savage Orphanage Home at 9 Hindowa Street in Bo, other districts in the other regions in the country and in Kono.
The supports according to Theresa Rose came from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SLAI a Philanthropist Jonathan Rose and Mimie Mogoka based in Minnesota  USA.
She also mentioned that they also got great supports from Grace Lutheran Church at Minnesota USA. She said that the initiative is non-political and nonprofit making but to alleviate the challenges faced by pupils whose parents find it difficult to meet to the needs of their Children.
Theresa Rose went on that the organisation has existed since 1996 operating in Sierra Leone to help needy in lessening their ordeals and equally to support their education centering on building the future of the children.
She said that they were donating school materials to help the pupils whose parents find it very difficult to meet to the needs of their children in attending schools. She encouraged the teachers to make use of the learning materials in teaching the pupils.
Noting that, they will return to Kono to organise SPELLING BEE Competition for pupils of the beneficiary school in order to assess as to whether the learning materials are utilised by the pupils.
Parents and teachers of the school appreciate the organisation for the timely donations of the school materials especially when most of them were challenged on how they could get schools materials for their children.
They assured that they would monitor these materials for the proper utilization by their children.
Some of the Schools in the Western areas in Freetown that benefited from the donations of the teaching and learning materials include; Cham Sierra Leone Primary and Junior Secondary School white tank Rokel, Success Nursery, Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary School Rokel, New Creation Nursery and Primary School Rokel, Rokel Agriculture Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary school Rokel, Ansarul Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary School Rokel Check Point, Provinces Senior Secondary School Freetown, Tower Hill, Municipal Primary School Central, Kissy Municipal Primary School Kissy Craise Yard, Glorious Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary School Rokel, Annie Walsh Senior Secondary School, Ahmadiyya Senior Secondary School, Salam Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary School Kosso Town, Climax Secondary School and Bett Philip Primary School to name but a few.
