School Walls Going Up
Community members gather to make bricks and build school walls. Residents of all ages donated their time and skills to begin the walls of the new school building that will serve the children of Newton Village for years to...
A Message From Our Founder
For the past few weeks, we’ve been sharing about our New School and Agricultural Building Campaign and it’s been so exciting to see the outpouring of support as well as the progress that’s already been made on the building construction with...
Teacher Feature: Mrs. Salamatu Kamara
Empowering Children Schools have amazing, dedicated teachers! This month our featured teacher is Mrs. Salamatu Kamara, who teaches at the Empowering Children School in Freetown. Ibrahim Kamara recently interviewed Mrs.Kamara: Where did you grow up?I grew up in Freetown,...
New School and Agricultural Building Campaign
This #GivingTuesday our New School and Agricultural Building Campaign will help us finish building a permanent school for 86 children who have never had access to education in rural Sierra Leone. The new building will serve as a multi-purpose educational and...
Cucumber Harvest
On the day we visited Adama she was busy washing and packing her freshly harvested cucumbers, preparing them to be sold. Farmers in our program are able to plant twice during the rainy season, and this was her second...
Teacher Feature: Ms. Konneh
Empowering Children Schools have amazing, dedicated teachers, and we plan to feature one each month. This month we meet Aminata Konneh, a teacher at the Empowering Children School in Newton Village. Ibrahim Kamara interviewed Ms. Konneh this week. ...