15/07/2025
*Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Officially hands over three newly built schools structures to Kamaa and Gbense Chiefdoms in Kono District under the Free and Quality School Education Project.*
By Joshua Sahr Pettiquoi - 12th July, 2025.
As part of the Government’s commitment to provide additional class rooms block to schools across the country in a bold step to create more access to children in Sierra Leone to be part of the inclusive education goal,
the Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Dr Conrald Sackey together with officials in the Free and Quality School Education Secretariat has officially opened and handed over three newly built schools structures with WASH facilities two in Kamaa and one in Gbense Chiefdom Kono District.
The handing over ceremony was held at the project locations of the communities of Samequidu and Salia in Kamaa and Boroma New Site in Gbense Chiefdom.
This momentous occasion witnessed by traditional authorities and people in the beneficiary chiefdoms, and the media among others.
Giving the background to the project, one of the staff attached at the Free and Quality School Education Project secretariat Jina Jusu Gobe says the project is a multi donor trust fund of one hundred and six million dollars funded by the World Bank, EU, Irish Aid, and Foreign Common Wealth and Development Office under which the secretariat is providing two hundred and sixty one Class Rooms in fifty schools across the country with equiped Modern funiture with Kono benefiting ten schools.
According to him, the project is part of the Government’s strides to provide additional class rooms block to schools across the country which aims to create more access to children in Sierra Leone to be part of the inclusive education
goal.
The Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Dr. Conrald Sackey says the free and quality school education project seeks to help cushy the burden from the parent of every child who had to struggle to pay his or her child's school fees.
He underscores the incredible land mark scored by the scheme including education for all through inclusion
One of the Pioneers of the project and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Human Capital Development Plus ( HCD+ ) and daughter of the soil of Kono Finda Koroma thanked the Government of President Bio for according Kono the opportunity to benefit from the project.
She thanked the previous Minister of basic and Senior secondary school Education Dr David Sengeh whom she said started the project.
She stressed on the need for parents to support the education of their children. Adding that, teenage pregnancy has been one of the factors which has hindered the education of the girl child which she said a stop should be put to.
According to records, children in those communities before now had to walk far distances to access primary and secondary education.
Traditional authorities and people from the beneficiary communities of Kamaa and Gbense chiefdoms applauded the government and partners for alleviating their ordeals in education and vowed to make the facilities achieve the desired goals.
