By Hassan Osman Kargbo
An estimated 16 classrooms in four schools across Moyamba District have benefited from President Julius Maada Bio’s free education initiative aimed at enhancing foundational learning and educational accessibility across Sierra Leone.
Speaking at the commissioning of the Seventh-Day Adventist Primary School in Coromboya, Kayamba Chiefdom- Moyamba District, the Project Coordinator at Fee Education Secretariat Project (FESP), Ambrose Sesay, told the gathering that the school comprises four fully furnished classrooms, accommodating an estimated number of 108 pupils.
Just like any other district across the country, he said that Moyamba District benefits a total of 16 classrooms out of 367 fully furnished classrooms nationwide.
The coordinator reminded the audience that President Bio’s investment in education is not just any business, but an investment with purpose for educational transformation that would see the enrollment of more children into schools.
Sesay noted that the conversation of education as a journey across “yesterday, today, and tomorrow” is not in decades but in the transformative timeline, adding that Sierra Leone’s educational trajectory is on clear course.
He said that the foundational learning will not only boost educational output but will also increase literacy level exponentially in the country, noting that” for most Sierra Leoneans, and with the education foundation established, tomorrow is still better than yesterday.”
Addressing the community to upkeep the school clean, the coordinator encouraged the community leadership to take diligent use of the structure in ways that would always keep the building decent at all time, noting that “the school does not serve the present generation but also future generations.”
With the current investment in education, the coordinator envisioned the future where every child, including the out of school children, could become knowledgeable while making Sierra Leone globally competitive country.
Representing the Paramount Chief of Kayamba Chiefdom, Foday Brima, expressed thanks and appreciation to the education ministry and FESP for their efforts in ensuring that their community gets full-blown school.
“The Chief acknowledged your efforts and want to assure you that the building will be used for its intended purposes,” he said, describing the opportunity as an envious as most parents would want to enroll their children in the school.
On his part, the Community Teachers Association (CTA), Francis Amara, in his statement described the opportunity as a laudable endeavour, and said that “I am overwhelmed beyond limit, while appealing to parents to send their children to school.
“We must send our children to school so that the structure does not become a mere building unoccupied,” he urged other parents, appealing to the government for the recruitment of teachers in the school.
According to the substantive Head Teacher Francis Kemoh, the government has made education so attractive to school pupils, noting that it does not only provide structures but equipped it with fully furnished classrooms.
