"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" Nelson MandelaProjects

Our project aim

We are a charity based project aiming to build, renovate and supply educational, play & sports resources to schools, in deprived communities around the world. Our initial and current project is Wesleyan Primary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Our project will potentially provide long term support to the school and employment opportunities to the community, plus offering a sense of unity and hope to the children and adults alike. We would like to donate funds on an annual basis in order to keep the school running proficiently as well as helping the community become more self-efficient.  

Project One: Wesleyan Primary School

The school urgently requires structural renovation and additional buildings, including; classrooms, wash-space/toilets and a kitchen. The school runs two shifts per day – the A.M shift has 646 children enrolled, as for the P.M shift, there are 731 students. In total there are 1,377 students, in a very limited and under furnished space, age ranging from 5-15 years. With the dream of being able to assist and further the education of these children we need to raise funds to purchase various building material;  labour costs and educational, play & sports equipment. There is also a desperate need for a water pump, as the school has minimal resources to supply water to the children. We have estimated a minimal of £10,000 to change the lives of the 1,377 children and to give them the chance to dream and aspire... the chance that many take for granted. 

Involving Enfield; Our local community

In the summer of 2008 we held a fundraiser and raffle; successfully raising £1,200 in cash funds. The fundraiser day was organised by the staff and children at Prince of Wales Primary Schools' After School Club, in Enfield Lock, Greater London. The raffle involved the sale of nearly 700 tickets and helped with further recognition and interest in our project, by members of the general public. The project was founded by Ray Williams and Sereena Keymatlian in 2008 and is based in Enfield, London. Our Sierra Leone ‘project’ representative, Sam Mason, resides in Freetown, SL.

We aim to involve our local community and schools in organising fundraisers.  We have had prize donations and interest in future project involvement; from Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and Vue Cinema. The fundraiser days and raffle distribution aims to involve children and young people as well as adults in raising money for students in  less fortunate and tragic circumstances; raising social 

awareness of deprived communities around the world. We are currently setting up a 'pen-pal buddy program', where the children involved in raising money can write to the children who they helped provide a better education for.  

Our current plans for raising funds 

• Spring/Summer raffle (currently looking for prize donations)
• Voluntary cash donations
• Affiliation programs
• Sponsorship money raised by participants running the Asics London ‘10km Run’ in July 2009. 
• Business/Association links and sponsors

We also intend to provide play and sports equipment for the children of Wesleyan Primary School in Sierra Leone. The children have drawn us pictures and written us letters; requesting a playground with a grassed area and paving. We are hoping to find a sponsor for the play area, with the hope of surprising the children with basic play equipment, in order to help them develop their creative and physical skills/interests; subsequently providing a better chance for achievements and fulfilled aspirations... a real chance for a better future. 

Further information and updates are available on our website www.newhope4students.com .

If there is any additional information you require, please contact me on 07779 725 570 or email me on s.a.keymatlian@newhope4students.com

If you had the opportunity to change the world, would you take it? Or do you just take it for granted.  Maybe, you never had the choice. Many believe ‘changing the world’ needs to be a large scaled act or gesture. We believe that a small act or gesture will