In this photograph we can see Rose standing with the village council on the new school’s verandah. This will provide extra sun protection and make it possible to move between the classrooms in the long rainy season. At the moment, this school has no latrines or a well. The floors READ MORE
Category: Developments
Building work on Bob Simson Secondary School makes progress
The Bob Simson school was virtually destroyed in a great storm a few years ago, so they have coped amazingly well in dire circumstances. Here is a photograph of their current school. The photos below of the building work shows the reinforcing rods sticking out of the walls in READ MORE
Medical support from friends in USA
This young man is a doctor – one of a group of three recently qualified doctors who came for a week from Freetown. This visit was organised by Dr Michael Pieh, who was born in Taiama but lives now in America. His father was the Methodist pastor in Taiama. Once READ MORE
Mosquito Nets for pregnant ladies and babies of Taiama
The first picture was taken inside the Taiama medical centre, which was built many years ago. Regular clinics are held here for mothers and babies, children and old people. The boxes the people are unpacking contain mosquito nets of both adult and baby sizes. They were given to pregnant women READ MORE
Work on the Bob Simson Secondary School has started in earnest.
The five month long rainy season in Sierra Leone starts in April. At the Bob Simson Secondary School at Bei Largo, whose roof blew off in a bad storm in 2016, work has started early to avoid these wet months. The foundations are being dug for a veranda using reinforcing READ MORE
Classroom extension being painted
The three classroom extension at the Gill Curry UMC School in Gbuwehun is now being painted. The total of six classrooms (including those in the original smaller building) will cater for more than 200 pupils, many of whom have to walk for several miles each day just to get there. READ MORE
Important plea
“The Kori Development Project thanks you for all your donations in the past. However we are currently short of funds for the shipment of donated goods to Sierra Leone as costs are rising fast. The cost of storage here in the UK is also becoming prohibitive. So we now have READ MORE
New Secondary School Project
The Bob Simson Secondary School Bai Largo Village .Named after the dear late husband of one of our trustees Peggy Simson. Bob passed away recently and they have both been strong pillars of support to this charity. The wind blew the roof away in 2016 and the elders have asked READ MORE
Teaching in Well Body Clinic
Trained midwife Rose teaching and distributing some delivery instruments in the Taiama Kori Chiefdom Well Body Clinic.
New Flooring installed.
This picture shows the newly tiled floor of the Ann Hay Vocational Centre’s veranda. The tiling has also been installed inside the centre building. Most of the furniture for the Vocational Centre has been donated by a Slough Sikh charity. The building is for the Post 16 women to learn READ MORE