SISTER SCHOOLS PROGRAM

Our US-Africa Sister Schools program got derailed by the pandemic, but is back up and running. We are working hard to build connections between the kids and teachers at the 17 Sierra Leone schools in our “Hands-on Reading!” (HOR) program. Now that our We Yone Learning Centre is open and thriving,  the program has a headquarters and ongoing support from Dauda Kamara, our Head Librarian. 

Program elements include sharing community histories, exchanging personal stories, and students at sister schools reading the same books and then them discussing together. With support from the American schools, their sister schools are improving their libraries and literacy programming. Also, we are expanding USACF’s Bridge Project and deploying digital libraries, greatly expanding the available educational resources and providing hundreds of African students with their first opportunities to access a broad range of  educational technology. 

As this program grows and thrives we will work to expand it to include student and teacher exchanges visits. Much of what happens in this program will be driven by the teachers and students in the program on both sides of the Atlantic - the voice of the students, on both sides of the Atlantic, is the driving force behind this program which, in the coming year, is set to reach many more kids and teachers.