ABC4All PRIMARY SCHOOL

16, Sibthorpe Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Tel: 033 – 259145<> 077-269559<>077562432

 

 

BACKGROUND ANALYSIS FOR ABC4All PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

Local ABC4All / SIERRA LEONE is a humanitarian organization operating in the country to strengthen capacity building and institutional development in coping with future national demands. The main objectives http://abc4all.net/local/generic/objectives.htm

of Local ABC4All / SIERRA LEONE is to cater for vulnerable communities for a better and sustainable living, including Child protection, Human Rights Advocacy,  Education and Health. We also engage youth in the Agro-sector and micro-grants. Presently, we are engaged in a range of activities in complementing youth employment initiatives in the country, especially in Education and Agro-sector. Our focus is engaging youth and the less priviledged children in sustainable livelihood in Education, learning for life or life skills, crop production, processing and marketing in the country.

 

We also engage youth in skills training like computing, building and construction; tailoring, motor mechanics and electrical installation; adult literacy. In order to carry out these activities according to the project description plans and objectives, we strongly need the following materials and resources for better implementation.

 

School building-rental per year administrative support for staff including salaries-logistics/teaching materials/rentage.

 

Books are really needed because most of these children are orphans, from poor family background and single parenthood. They need clothing as well. This can help them regain their self-esteem and respect. Most of them live in slum communities. There are no health or sanitary facilities. Some of our children (Target groups) are commonly called war child or rebel child. As a result, they hardly mixed with the other child because they are always humiliated and molested. Local ABC4All / SIERRA LEONE wants them to feel human so that they will regain their lost self-esteem through psycho-social activities like counseling, recreational activities, mediation and advocacy for those in conflict with the law. Therefore contributions of books, clothing, shoes, bags, etc. are needed. This can improve attendance, motivation and attentiveness. Feeding at least 3 times a day.

 

Sample

Mohamed Abu aged 8 years class 2

Uniform – 2 pairs per academic year

Shoes = 2 pairs per academic year.

School bag = 1 – To protect the books and school materials.

Stationeries = To enable child to participate in class e.g. class work assignment.

Wet feeding = To improve attendance and fitness.

Medical =   To improve health of the child and to combat other related

diseases.

 

MONTHLY ESTIMATE PER ONE CHILD

                                                $

Clothes, including uniforms            -                  12.91

Shoe                                                 -                  16.66

Bag                                                   -                    6.66

Stationeries                                      -                  16.67

Medical                                             -                  40.00

Wet Feeding:                                   -                  66.66

To improve attendance and to

Physically fit in class                                           _______

                                                Total          =       $159.56

 

Housing – with a caregiver or foster parents. Our children are living in deplorable housing. They live in mud-zinc houses that are leaking seriously during the rainy season. The surroundings are not healthy, very cold and muddy.

Stipend

Total

In dollars

 

We need teachers for primary elementary/nursery urgently since we want the standard of Local ABC4All / SIERRA LEONE to be one of the primary institutions in the country as these children are our future leaders.

 

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR Local ABC4All / SIERRA LEONE

 

Volunteers are highly needed for our projects as we are engaged in a wide range of activities. We will need their Technical, moral support in helping us to work together in Sierra Leone as partners in development especially in the areas of soliciting funds to implement the following projects: Agro-sector Agriculture tools and equipment and fertilizers.

 

Education: Teachers to help us to teach and connect our organization with charitable and humanitarian organizations for technical and moral assistance. To improve the standard of Education in the country. To affiliate our school with other institutions abroad (foreign).

 

Health: Medical practitioners. To work with ABC4All and to help solicit and remedy our present medical problems (Death rate is high among children).

 

Vocational Skills Training - We need volunteers in computer, building-construction, Electrical installation, tailoring and cosmetology. To also help us to acquire the basic tools and materials to implement our goals Gara tie dying ink and other materials.

 

According to our plans and objectives, our volunteers are our partners in development. We are going to work as one family of ABC4All. As a result, as long as we all have the same goal (CHANGE AGENTS) to improve the lives of vulnerable communities within the 12 districts in Sierra Leone, they can stay as long as they want.  Security is guaranteed.

 

Skills required: Teacher Education in primary school – Nursery/elementary, vocational skills and formal schooling. Medical practitioner, pharmacist, social worker to help build the capacity of our social workers and community animators. Agriculturalist-poultry-rice farming and Agro-industry.

Through the help of our donors and partners in development, strategies will be put in place for their lodging, feeding and movement within and out of Freetown because we operate in the provinces as well.

 

CAPACITY BUILDING

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

 

1.                            Country Director.

2.                            Programme Manager/Co-ordinator

3.                            Head Teacher.

4.                            Administrator.

5.                            3 Teachers.

6.                            3 Volunteers/Teachers/Medical/ Skills social workers/community volunteers/development workers.

7.                            Supervisor.

8.                            Social workers-counselors 2

9.                            Community Animators 2

10.                       Security / Cleaner.

 

LOGISTICS

 

SALARIES

MOBILITY – 3 Bikes, 6 bicycles, 1 Toyota Hilux for the provinces in order to monitor and evaluate project activities for accurate reporting to donors.

 

School bus to convey students to school and after school to avoid lateness to transportation is very acute in Sierra Leone.

 

School building rental –

Teaching materials: Blackboards, tables, desks, chairs, cupboards, chalk, visual aids-maps globe etc.