Students Passed the national exam passed with good scores! In Sierra Leone, students graduating primary school take the national exam, NPSE, in order to be promoted to the secondary school of their choice. All thirty-one students from Empowering Children...

More than half of the children in Sierra Leone (60%) over 15 years old are illiterate, and half of those dropping out of primary school are unable to read or write. Existing research points to household poverty as the...

SHARP is a four-pronged charity with a school, an agriculture program, disaster relief, and the long-range goal of building a sustainable community out of the flood zone. The Rainy Season Begins Summer brings the beginning of the rainy season,...

The end of the second term of the academic year brought many exciting events for Empowering Children School, as we celebrated our successes. On Friday we held an award day, giving recognition and prizes for hard working students. Prizes were...

Farm News The first meeting of 2023 for The Solution to Hunger farm program took place at the home of the village chief in Makonkonday Village, Waterloo. We had a large turnout with over 51 farmers attending the meeting....

Tragic Loss of Teacher Sadly, in October Empowering Children School lost a beloved teacher.  Balla Thoronka, who taught grade 5, passed away suddenly. Mr. Thoronka was passionate about teaching his pupils and will be greatly missed. He was very...