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
Category: Developments
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
Almost completed Women’s Workroom
The photograph shows the Ann Hay Women’s Vocational Centre nearing completion with its red, raised roof. On the left side of the Vocational Centre are the four Brenda Tumber Toilets. These toilets will be for Library visitors as well as the Centre users. They have ceramic toilet bowls and drain READ MORE
Building new toilets…
New Tumber toilets are being built . This involves digging of pits and then lining them with local bricks, using stronger British German cement, and is one of the most expensive parts of the process.
Women’s room being extended….
The Ann Hay Women’s Vocational Centre is being extended to include an office and store room as well as the workroom. The new building will have solar power, secure doors and a tiled floor. The ceiling of the new room will be higher to allow more air circulation READ MORE
SI Thames Valley club supports the Kori Women Development Project in Sierra Leone
Rose Moriba Simbo, Founder and Director of the the Kori Women Development Project and member of SI Thames Valley, Gill Curry, SI Thames Valley and Johanna Raffan, SI Thames Valley and Chair and Trustee of the Kori Development Project, share the story with us. Gill Curry explains: “The Kori Project READ MORE
The Sandy Raffan Memorial Library
Sandy was the late husband of Soroptimist International Thames Valley Club member Johanna Raffan who is also one of the trustees of the Kori Development project. Sandy helped to raise funds for Kori and was suddenly taken ill, subsequently falling in to a coma from which he never recovered. He READ MORE