GRM-SL NEWSLETTER
GRM-SL has launched it's first newsletter. The newsletter is aimed at keeping donors and supporters updated on a regular basis. Click here to view the June-December 2008 newsletter.
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| HOMELESS YOUTH UPDATE
GRM-SL has been working with 6 homeless youth from the Lumley area since the beginning of the year. The boys are now all in skills training and have been placed in group homes. The boys are also enjoying monthly allowances, counselling and functional literacy classes.
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| SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP NEWS
The 2008/09UK Sierra Leone school partnership scheme is now underway. 3 Scottish schools have established links with schools in Kenema and a further 3 have joined this term. This term GRM-SL has been assisting the Kenema schools with letter and newsletter writing. GRM-SL also helped film cultural performances at each school for their Scottish school partner.
To promote Sierra Leone, GRM-SL launched a new Kids Rights Pikin Rights online magazine in July where the children in Scotland can learn all about life for ‘pikin’ in Sierra Leone. Visit www.kidsrights-pikinrights.org for more information.
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| STREET BOY HELP
GRM-SL’s 6 month outreach programme for street children in Kenema district came to an end in August. In September GRM-SL launched an interim programme for 14 of the street boys. A night shelter was opened where 9 of the boys now sleep and the remaining boys have been placed in group homes. GRM-SL has placed 11 of the boys in education and 3 in skills training programmes. All receive feeding and health care. The programme will come to a close in December, with the boys being reintegrated with their families in various parts of the country or placed in group homes. News of the final stage will be available online at the beginning of 2009
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IMPROVING EDUCATION FOR PIKIN IN SIERRA LEONE
When Airyhall Primary School, Aberdeen, Scotland began to learn more about the constraints of their partner school in Sierra Leone, they did not waste time in finding ways to help! Over the past year Airyhall Primary has done a tremendous amount to assist S.L.C. Primary School, Kenema. In April they donated funds which built 55 benches and chairs and 2 latrine toilets. And their help did not stop there. At the end of last term Airyhall held class fundraisers and raised an amazing £2500! The funds are currently being used to rehabilitate an unused 2 classroom building which was destroyed during a storm in 2006.
Saint Charles Lwanga Primary School, Kenema has also just had word that their partner school Sacred Heart Primary, Greenock, Scotland has raised £500 for them! The funds will be used to build benches and chairs.
Princess Diana Bilingual School, Kenema, partner School of Shapinsay Primary School, Orkney, will be receiving a donation of school equipment and resources thanks to a kind donation from The S.A.F.E Foundation UK in December.
Everyone at GRM-SL would like to say ‘plenty tenke’ to everyone who has contributed to improving the learning conditions for pikin in Salone!
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