This presentation provides an overview of the Madina Village School Project in Sierra Leone from its beginning through the first year of classes. It summarizes the country and village context, including Sierra Leone's education challenges following civil war. It then outlines the school's mission to provide Christian education and improve quality of life, and future goals such as expanding enrollment and adding new facilities and programs.

2. This Silent Slide presentation was created in June 2014.
It is an overview of the Madina Village School Project from its
beginning through the first year of classes.
(…because a picture is worth a thousand words)

5. My father
handed me to her
and said,
“We have heard
that you are
educated now.
Here, prove it.”
Because of her
education, I lived!

7. Sierra Leone is
in West Africa
 Atlantic coast
North of equator
 E.S.T. +5 hours

8. Countries
touching
Sierra
Leone:
Guinea
Liberia
The Region of West Africa

9.  Same size as
South Carolina.
 Capital city is
Freetown
 Madina Village is
140 miles
southeast of
Freetown
The Country of Sierra Leone

10. Education has declined drastically in the
recent past.
1,270 primary schools were destroyed in
the civil war from 1992-2001.
Sixty-seven percent of children were out of
school in 2001.
Two-thirds of the adult population is
illiterate.

13. Madina Village is in Lower Banta Chiefdom,
Moyamba District , Sierra Leone

14.  ~200 adults
 ~250 children
 Mainly
farming
 Land owned
communally
 Mende
language
Village Facts
It takes a day’s travel from the city to the
village.

27. The mission of the Madina Village
School is to provide Christian
education to the children of the
Madina area and to improve their
quality of life through outreach.
(Our Mission Statement)

81. Expand to full capacity – 360 students.
(in 2014 we hope to
add 60 students)
School and Community Clinic
Library and Ad Building
Add one grade level per year (in 2014
serving preschool-4th
grade)
Adult Education classes
Women’s programs