Patriotic Sierra Leonean Pleads To Drivers…Help Get That Child to School and Home Early
A patriotic Sierra Leonean, Francis Beckley is calling on
all Sierra Leoneans with cars to help get children to school and home early.
Francis Beckley who is the Chief Campaigner of Help Get That Child to School and Home Early, told SALONE TIMES that his campaign started last academic year when he saw the challenges some school children were faced with in getting to school and home early in the country.
Francis Beckley who is the Chief Campaigner of Help Get That Child to School and Home Early, told SALONE TIMES that his campaign started last academic year when he saw the challenges some school children were faced with in getting to school and home early in the country.
He said he began to send WhatsApp messages to different
people and groups as a start.
Beckley further informed this media house that his main focus of running this particular company is to help improve the educational system in Sierra Leone as education is day by day depreciating. He said that helping get a child to school and coming home early will make a great impact. He said a child who stays all the way at Goodrich village or beyond and is attending the Government Model Secondary School at Circular Road gets to school by 10 am and this causes the child to miss the first period and cannot recover; and that that same child only gets home at about 9pm which is not good as that too has its accompanying problems.
He added that as for school children in the afternoon, they get home much later and this is not helping them at all because they have to rest, launder their uniform, study and prepare themselves to attend school the next day.
He continued to say: “I strongly believe that if there is 90% literacy rate in the country, the country will improve economically; improve in governance and the country will automatically develop and grow but if the educational system is very poor there will be high illiteracy rate as a result of children dropping out of schools, while cliques, gangsters and hooliganism will increase .This campaign is to help improve the educational standard of Sierra Leone.”
Beckley advised the use of this opportunity for children to see adults as an inspirational source and to preach to them the importance of education and the benefit of hard work rather than rather using this opportunity to abuse children or asking them out on a date or kidnapping children as the elections are just around the corner and above all, he also advised students to be more appreciative of people helping other people.
Beckley further informed this media house that his main focus of running this particular company is to help improve the educational system in Sierra Leone as education is day by day depreciating. He said that helping get a child to school and coming home early will make a great impact. He said a child who stays all the way at Goodrich village or beyond and is attending the Government Model Secondary School at Circular Road gets to school by 10 am and this causes the child to miss the first period and cannot recover; and that that same child only gets home at about 9pm which is not good as that too has its accompanying problems.
He added that as for school children in the afternoon, they get home much later and this is not helping them at all because they have to rest, launder their uniform, study and prepare themselves to attend school the next day.
He continued to say: “I strongly believe that if there is 90% literacy rate in the country, the country will improve economically; improve in governance and the country will automatically develop and grow but if the educational system is very poor there will be high illiteracy rate as a result of children dropping out of schools, while cliques, gangsters and hooliganism will increase .This campaign is to help improve the educational standard of Sierra Leone.”
Beckley advised the use of this opportunity for children to see adults as an inspirational source and to preach to them the importance of education and the benefit of hard work rather than rather using this opportunity to abuse children or asking them out on a date or kidnapping children as the elections are just around the corner and above all, he also advised students to be more appreciative of people helping other people.
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