Fourteen acres in Malakai are becoming one place where the whole area can gather.
A school for the children of the surrounding villages
A seminary to train the next teachers
A lake to hold water through the dry season
Work is happening now, one building at a time, as money comes in.
2Running now in Malakai
A Teacher Per Village
Every village gets a team of three, paid for a full year: one teacher, one assistant, and one cook.
The teacher runs the class. The assistant works with the children who need more time. The cook makes sure nobody sits in class hungry. It is running in Malakai today, and we add a village when we can pay for the team.
3Built by hand
2000 Bricks
The school went up brick by brick, and the community made the bricks.
Families in the village shaped, dried, and stacked two thousand of them. Support Life paid for the cement, the roof, and the doors. The building belongs to the people who built it.
Yongoro
Support Life Clinic, Yongoro Community
A community clinic at Yongoro, with a dispensary on site. On a clinic day the queue starts before the doors open.
Mile 91
Support Life Orphanage
A children's home at Mile 91, Sierra Leone. Supplies go in on a regular run: bedding, cookware and school materials, handed over to the staff who run the house day to day.
One project
Parts of the same plan
The campus gives the area a center. The teachers fill the classrooms. The bricks came from the families who send their children there. The clinic and the orphanage sit alongside them. Each part only works because of the others.