Field notes from Serekunda.
Every year, a report. Every trip, a story. Twenty years of updates.
2025
Three new classrooms under construction.
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2024
A fresh start in Serekunda.
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2023
Nothing left to do but move.
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2022
Under local pressure.
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2021
Walls going back up.
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2020
COVID — everything stalls, we build where we can.
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2019
The foundation walls go up.
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2018
A new foundation, done by the book.
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2017
The school in full swing.
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2016
Digging the well deeper, concreting the walls.
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2015
Time for a new watchman’s house.
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2014
A vegetable garden and a chicken coop.
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2013
It starts to look like a real classroom.
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2012
A hygienic toilet, at last.
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2011
Our well, dug deeper.
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2010
The first chairs, the first board.
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2009
The official opening.
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2008
Mud blocks, by hand.
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2007
We bought our own land.
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2006
Everything was lacking — no board, no notebooks, no money.
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2005
Sindola is founded.
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