Madina Village School was the fulfillment of the lifelong dream of Francis Mustapha to build a school in his home village in rural Sierra Leone.  He began building in January 2011 and the new school opened in September 2013.  More students, teachers and buildings have been added.

• Madina Village School is a Primary School.  The campus includes:
•  sixteen cleared acres of land
• two large classroom buildings (11 classrooms plus offices)
• (cement block construction with metal roofs, glass windows and steel doors)
• two open-air preschool buildings (one is off-campus)
• open-air assembly hall
• outdoor kitchen
• powerhouse for solar and generator
• shipping container storage building
• lumber storage building
• hand-dug well
• soccer field
• People:  At Madina Village School:  
• One Deputy Executive Director (Financial Administrator)
• 13 teachers
• 6 assistant teachers
• One secretary
• One full-time nurse 
• 3 nannies 
• 3 cooks 
• 3 groundskeepers 
• 3 security guards
• 405 students in Preschool through Class Six

People in the U.S.:  

• 15 Directors of the Board - all volunteers