In the summer we shipped a whole container full to supplies for the new school out to Freetown. Below you can see pictures of its arrival in Freetown and transportation on to Goderich.

Please follow this LINK to download a copy of the extended January 2016 Report from the Extra Mile team.

Yes, the news from Sierra Leone is grim and not expected to get any better, any time soon. Mike returned from Sierra Leone in late August 2014 on one of the last flights after the Gambia Bird airline 'pulled the plug' on its return flights to London...

Despite the growing anxiety over the threat of EVD, and it is very real, we can still continue life here, almost as normally as we can and respond to those everyday strains that continue to challenge us.

Last Monday, we finally emerged from the SLRTA (Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority) with a driving license for Craig Gaffney, our Extra Mile volunteer.

We just thought we would send a few images from the site of the new ‘FREE’ school in the Ober-Funkia, district of Goderich, near Freetown.

Our latest volunteer Craig Gaffney will be out in Sierra Leone for the next 6 months and he has been regularly - well, regularly for SIerra Leone - updating his personal blog from Goderich.

As Martin Smidman prepared for his two-week, Extra Mile programme at Agape ‘Experimental’ School in Sierra Leone there were the inevitable, crucial enquiries, such as, ‘how long are the lessons?’ and ‘how big are the classes?’.

A colleague handed an advert, in a teacher magazine, to Claire Lintern in 2010. She applied to become a volunteer with Extra Mile and taught at Bishop Jane Middleton High School in Goderich, Sierra Leone.

Tim Feast’s fourth education programme, since 2009 with Extra Mile, in Sierra Leone has been exceptional.

Since her return to the UK in June 2012 when Dr. Jane Bentham had worked at Services Secondary School, Juba, in Sierra Leone, she has been working hard to continue her work for Extra Mile, by raising funds for its work in this small West African republic.

Well, I’ve been here now since September and in many ways its only feels like a week! Yet in other ways it’s now home and I can’t imagine being anywhere else.

Chloe Ennis, an 17 year old arts student from King Edward VI College, studying A Level Media, Art, Textiles and Photography, and Sandy Wright’s granddaughter, will be soaring from 12,000 feet at speeds of 120 mph in a 5 minute tandem skydive on her 18th. birthday in April 13.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Don’t know about you but I can’t believe it’s a new year already..... So much has changed some good some bad as always.