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Extra Mile Charity, a UK based registered charity - no. 1190876 - began in 2009 to coordinate teachers from around the world volunteering to work in schools located in deprived areas of Sierra Leone. From this came the idea of building a free school for children whose very poor families’ could not afford their education. Funded by UK based Trustees and volunteers the school was opened in 2016 and now has close to 200 students. In 2022 “The Extra Mile Ober Funkia Community Secondary School” was awarded the National Examination Awards Certificate for “Outstanding Performance” for achieving second in the country for its results in the West African school leaving exams. There are still buildings to complete but the school is thriving and looking forward to serving the community for many years to come. Please help by donating to the Extra Mile Charity and ensuring the long term future of our school. We have also set up an appeal to help finance our students’ breakfasts. Please take a look at the Donate page for more details.

We are really pleased to announce that Extra Mile has been successful in a bid to raise a substantial amount of money to finish off the Phase 2 project started in 2019. Courtesy of the Guernsey Overseas Aid Development Commission (GOADC) work has started to complete all the classrooms and corridors with plaster, paint and floor tiles, finish installing all the windows, window guards and doors, upgrade the electricity consumer unit to one more commensurate with the size of the building, install all electrics including lighting, sockets, switches etc. and build an access ramp to the front of the school. We do still need funds for all our other costs, and also the breakfasts that we provide for our students, of course so please donate if you can. We would like to wholeheartedly thank GOADC for their decision to accept our application and provide us with the means to finish the school. Thank you GOADC

SEPTEMBER 2024. We welcome Mr Luke Talmage as our new CEO. Luke is currently Headteacher of Manor Court Community Primary School, having been head of 3 other schools previously. He has very wide educational experience, and we look forward to working with him to develop our school, to further improve the education and life chances of our students.

These are the Extra Mile teaching staff for the academic year 2024 - 2025

The school Prize Giving event for 2024 to celebrate the achievements of our pupils

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