Happy Christmas from everyone here at CODEP

Happy Christmas from everyone involved in CODEP, both in the UK and Sierra Leone.

We would like to thank everyone your generous support over the past 12 months.

As set out in our December Newsletter, it has certainly been another busy and exciting year for us.

We are particularly looking forward to building on the work started by the Literacy Development and Learning Network, headed by Ed Varey up in Liverpool. Working with the Reading Culture Committee in Waterloo, we hope that they will be able to maintain the training for our literacy co-ordinators, who are teachers in the schools who have volunteered to oversee and look after the books and ensure that they continue to be enjoyed by all the pupils.

Construction work is also well under way on the first stage – a book sorting facility and children’s library – of the Equiano Centre in Waterloo. We are particularly pleased that we have been able to establish on the job skills training for many of the labourers.

Your generous support means so much to the schools, teachers and pupils in Sierra and we are all too aware that we cannot do any of this without you.

If you would like to follow our projects into 2012, please go to our website www.codep.co.uk or why not join our Facebook page and help up spread the word.

With best wishes for 2012

The CODEP Team