A follow up of our school project in Waterloo a suburb of Freetown, Sierra Leone 2016.





Our logo - SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL


We are now two acedamicyears away from our goal of establishing a complete kindergaten and an elementary school for the poor children of Waterloo a section of Freetown trying to rise from the ashes of the brutal civil war of the 90s and the recent impact of  the deadly virous ebola which claim the lives of thousands of lives in West Africa including Sierra, Liberia and Guinea.. Up  to date the Swanson Primary school has a kindergarten clases and an elementary section which includes classes 1, 2, 3, and 4. We will be adding class 5 next academic year and class 6 the following academic year to complete our goal of an elementary school for Waterloo. Some of our pupils are orphans of who lost their parents to the ebola virous. Our school has four female teachers who are dedicted to teaching our students giving them some of the best education in the country.

Thanks to our school many of the poor parents can afford to send their children to school a choice which is not easy for them because the resourses are not always easy to come by.




OUR FOUR FEMALE TEACHERS

THE SCHOOL ODE (Composed by James Sackor Bartee)

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL WILL SHINE

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL THE SCHOOL WE LOVE SO DEAR

SCHOOL OF OUR PRIDE AND OUR DESTINY

FROM THEY BLESSED WALLS MAY KNOWLEDGE FLOW ALWAYS

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL WILL SHINE

REFRAIM

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL WILL SHINE

WILL SHINE

SHINE IN FREETOWN CITY

SHINE IN SIERRA LEONE

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL WILL SHINE

WE ARE THE STUDENTS OF SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL

WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE UP THE SCHOOL

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL WE LOVE YOU WITH HEARTS SO DEAR

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL WILL SHINE

OH OUR FOUNDER THE ONE WE LOVE SO DEAR

WE GIVE OUR THANKS AND OUR GRATITUDE

THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL

SWANSON PRIMARY SCHOOL WILL SHINE

A CROSS SECTION OF OUR PUPILS AND THE TEACHERS

Our head teacher Mrs Koroma

School is over  and pupils hangout before they go home

School is over  for the day and the pupils find time to play on their way home

Director Jimissa giving telephones to our teachers

The Director of the school Mr. Jimissa give out our telephone supply to each of our teacher as an incentive to encourage their good work







The students gather to learn the school ode composed by the founder of the school


The fouder signing paper slips that we issue to our clients who come to charge their telephone



The solar cell charges a 12 volts battery and from the batter we charge the phones



We introduced a telephone-chargine system as a project for raising funds locally to support the school




We also run a taxi to raise runds for the support of the school standing in the blue t-shirt is our driver


Mr. Jimissa left the Director of our school
James Sackor Bartee right the Founder of the Swanson Primary School





Three (sisters) of our pupil who lost their parents to ebola

2013 - The initial work on the building that will house the Swanson Primary School in Waterloo a suburb of Freetown, Sierra Leone. We had to enlarge the small windows on the church building so as to allow more light and a better ventilation into the room for a better learnining enviornment. 

 Pastor Jimissa digging drainage to allow the rain water to flow into the nearby stream behind the house

2013 - Plastering and white washing the walls. The young people were very active in the renovation project of the church which we now use for classes

 The walls are made of sun-dried mud bricks so they had to be plastered with a cover of cement to avoind erosion during the heavy rainy season

 Two proud young boys showing off their self-made hats made from empty cement paper bags

 A young boy bravely working from a make shift skafle to reach the high part of the walls

 Outside view of the newly renovated church building

 Sahr - the chief mason makes the steps of the back way door to the building

2013 - Harvesting vegetables in the school garden. Pupils and teachers and parents work together in the garden 

 Sweet potatoes from the school garden

 Our young preschool pupil eager to help in the garden waters the plants in the tough dry period

 2013 - Making the school desk. We had to contract a local carpenter to build the school desk which the young people carried on their heads to the school building.

 Carrying loads on the head is the cheepest and most comon means of trasporting materials in Sierra Leone

 We even tried to pack the car with as many chairs as possible

 The first classrooms in the far end of the church building