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The Remote Village Outreach

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Sunday, 10 June 2007 18:37
This was the highlight of the trip for all of us. Cynthia was approached to see if we would be interested in carrying on a work with 3 remote villages, Lawana, Bandawa and Njorpowahun that was started by an amputee pastor who since has passed away. The work has been left in a state of limbo since then. He was also a teacher and had started a primary school in the furthermost village. We felt that it was the heart of Jesus would not want the good work built up so far to be lost and that God was asking us to take up the baton.

The 3 villages are home to the poorest community we have seen yet in Sierra Leone. Health is of a very low standard. The school is a traditional mud and stick building with a palm leaf roof.

The late pastor’s helper, an untrained teacher and pastor, has been carrying on the work. 30 kids attend up to Class 2 only and are housed in one open room; however they currently pay school fees. We took names of 30 other children of school age whose parents could not afford the fees and 5 orphans. After discussion with our staff and the village elders we decided to:

  • Employ a qualified teacher and pastor £35/($67)month
  • Employ a Pastor who act as a classroom assistant £35/($67)month
  • This allows us to provide free schooling for all the kids of the 3 villages
  • Provide a corrugated zinc roof for the school at around £500 ($950).
  • Basic schooling materials
  • Health assessment of the children (de-worming etc)

The villages have been asked to extend the current stick and mud structure to cater for the doubling of the number of pupils and for the provision of seating and desks.

Cynthia will be working with these villages in the area of healthcare education and treatment where necessary. She will also be gathering referrals to the Mercy Ships women’s hospital based in Freetown who repair injuries caused in difficult child birth. She will also be referring any amputee’s to the Mercy Ships New Steps prosthetic limb facility near Freetown.

We will also be looking at extending the vocational training to those in need in these villages.

We are currently looking for a pastor/trainee pastor who can speak Mende to develop the church plant established by the late pastor using the school building as a church.

In working with these villages we also aim to develop a model plan with which we can apply to other village outreach projects and is in line with our vision statement where the Village Hub is seen to be the future central resource for the overall regional programme.

This project has now been taken over by our relationship partners, Zion Assemblies of God.