Malakai, Yongoro & Mile 91, Sierra Leone

A 14-acre campus, built village by village

A school made from bricks the village shaped by hand. A clinic, and an orphanage. Around them, teachers are already at work.

A wide view of the village, low buildings scattered among palm trees on red earth
Under construction

The Center

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.

Running 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.

School children in yellow uniforms gathered under a banner outside their classroom
Built 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.

Women breaking stone by hand under a shelter, producing the aggregate used in the building work
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.

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Artwork for the Support Life Foundation Sierra Leone campus project

Help finish the campus

Your gift buys cement, roofing, and a year of a teacher's pay.

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