Welcome To The David School, Sierra Leone Website
Sierra Leone is a very poor country in West Africa, similar in area to Ireland with a population of around six million people.
In the Human Development Index for 2022, Sierra Leone was placed 184th out of the 193 countries included.
Various indicators are used to quantify how countries perform.
The indicators used in the 2022 report were:
- life expectancy at birth,
- expected years of schooling for children,
- mean years of schooling for adults, and
- gross national income per capita.
As many of you will know, a tragic civil war took place in Sierra Leone between 1992 and 2002 which resulted in an estimated 50,000 people killed with many more seriously maimed and injured. During the war, many communities were razed to the ground by the warring factions resulting in the complete absence of education in many areas.
Hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes in the countryside to relative safety in the capital city of Freetown. Unfortunately, and as a direct consequence, Freetown is now massively overcrowded with many people existing in squalid conditions.
More background about the country can be found by clicking on Sierra Leone on the welcome page.
Government policy has been to encourage people to move back to the rural areas, such as the location of David’s school, 36 miles from Freetown and as such the main village is known as Mile 36.
The availability of the David School has had a transformational impact on the community as a whole, providing both academic learning and practical skills training.
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