Tuesday 7th November Part 1

We began the day with a meeting with Graine O’Neill at Irish Aid who seemed very supportive, and had just been asked for comments on our proposal regarding the Kenema eye unit. Fingers crossed! (Since this trip we have discovered that we have been successful in winning this – thank you Irish Aid!)

We then visited the British High Commissioner, Sarah Mackintosh, and put forward the possibility of the Commission funding a pilot integrated education project (IEP), with the Milton Margai School, (a special school for blind children) where we will provide equipment for the children leaving the school and going on to secondary education. Unfortunately it is unlikely that they will be able to fund this as she said they had already provided a lot of funding to the school. However, she was certainly a supporter, and could be a useful contact into the future.