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
