December 14, 2010
To the Friends and Supporters of EduNations:
God continues to richly bless EduNations.
In Sierra Leone, West Africa, EduNations is now responsible for establishing and operating five (5) primary schools (Grades 1-6) serving approximately 1200 children in Freetown, Makonko, Mapinda, Mayata and Maharie. EduNations is also responsible for establishing and operating the Lighthouse Junior Secondary School of Mapinda, serving 
approximately 240 students in grade levels 7-9. EduNations has also been able to provide one hot meal daily in most of our elementary schools. The almost 1500 children attending these schools would have absolutely no access to an education without our help.
In 2010, EduNations, reinforced its close partnership with Transformation Education in the critical work of recruiting, training, mentoring and supervising the teachers in these various schools. The EduNations faculty, now numbering 46, is committed to excellence in education and discipleship. Under the direction of the EduNations faculty, 100% of the sixth-grade students in our schools have passed the national primary school examination.
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EduNations also solidified its relationship with the Sierra Leone Alliance of Western New York in 2010. The Sierra Leone Alliance is an association of ministries and not-for-profit organizations committed to providing humanitarian assistance in Sierra Leone as a concrete demonstration of the love and the grace and the compassion of Jesus Christ. The Alliance is comprised of Global Outreach Mission which is devoted to rebuilding schools, hospitals and key infrastructure and to planting churches; Jericho Road Ministries which is committed to providing free medical care; Houghton College which is committed to sending teams of faculty, alumni and students to work on economic and agricultural development and sustainability projects, public health education projects, and the re-establishment and re-invigoration of the country’s educational system; and The Chapel at Crosspoint which is committed to providing clean drinking water across Sierra Leone and to coordinating the work of the Alliance.
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This year, the Sierra Leone Alliance provided funding to EduNations to ensure that clean drinking water wells and modern sanitation facilities would be installed at all EduNations schools. Those projects are now nearly complete at every one of our facilities. The Alliance continues to be a source of great encouragement and assistance in making the EduNations schools the centerpiece of sustainable village life.
In October, Buffalo and Pittsburgh friends gathered to give thanks for the differences made in Sierra Leone in 2010 and to raise resources to continue the good work already begun. The Buffalo and Pittsburgh events raised over $100,000, including a single donation of more than $30,000 to build a new primary school in a desperately poor area east of Freetown, called “Phase 3”, and another gift of $15,000 to get us halfway toward building a much needed secondary school in the village of Makonko. We are grateful for your continued generosity and faithful prayers.
We look forward to continuing this desperately important work to which the King has called us in West Africa, all to His Glory.
With thankful hearts,
EduNations Board of Directors.
