A new multi-purpose room for the Bob Simson Secondary School

  This rural secondary school was planned for 150 students ,  but already has over 200 and growing .  It is impossible for these pupils to get to the Sandy Raffan library in Taiama  due to the distances involved. The trustees decided that an additional room was needed at the Secondary school. This room will be used as both a classroom and branch library.  It will be know as the Rose Hutchinson library.

 Rose Hutchinson (a trustee) has raised thousands of pounds from her beautifully made craft items .  For some of them she uses material dyed by the trainees at the Ann  Hay training school in Taiama. She is undertaking to help fund the building of this extension , to ease  the overcrowding.  It will have a library area at one end. 

We have already sent the extra tables and chairs which will be needed .    They were donated by Bourne End community centre in the U.K.   The building is currently under construction, with completion dependant on donations from our generous supporters.

Chairs, donated by Bourne End Community Centre on their way to the new classroom – when completed

Newly completed Teacher Accommodation

This is the newly completed teachers’ accommodation at the Gill Curry Primary School in the village of Gbunhehun in the very rural chiefdom of Taiama in rural Sierra Leone . They have been living for nearly two years in a leaking wooden hut . There are now six members of staff , plus a part time advisory headteacher . I am pleased that Alice is a student training at the school , but she lives with her family. The facilities have access to a water pump and long drop toilets . They will cook on an open fire round the back of the building . They plan to put up hammocks under the verandah , a good idea!

Three small ‘flatlets’ have been completed at the Gill  Curry Primary school at Gbunhehun.  There are two young teachers who have been working in this very rural hamlet for a couple of years .    They were living in a leaky wooden hut ,  but now they are housed in a newly built watertight bungalow .   The third one is for the volunteer Headteacher (retired) who spends a few days each week helping out with the school’s organisation and admin .   He gets a lift on the motor bike taxi , also provided by Gill Curry , for the ten miles each way journey .       All the teachers use this taxi to attend meetings with teachers from other schools .      We hope this will encourage them  to enjoy their time in this isolated  location .     They even worked in their spare time as volunteer labourers for the builders,  to speed up the completion .        We have already sent them domestic goods for their new homes .

These children now have the possibility of continuing their education at the Bob Simpson technical secondary school about three miles away . From the age of five they are used to walking miles along bush paths to get to any possible form of education .

We have sent lots of text books and furniture over the last few years

    This video will show you the different projects that the Kori Development charity has been involved with, and how they have helped the community.