To promote the advancement of St. Joseph’s Secondary School, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, through fundraising, to provide scholarship opportunities, enhance staff training, and provide funding for curricular and co-curricular programs.
Together, we are continuing the school legacy – empowering the girls of Sierra Leone to become agents of positive transformation in their families, communities and beyond.
A huge overhaul of Sierra Leone's education system is underway. Broken by the decade-long civil war and then battered by the effects of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, it has been slowly recovering.
The Sisters of the Order of St. Joseph’s of Cluny arrived in Sierra Leone. They opened a day and boarding school for children at Howe Street in Freetown on the 8th December 1866 named St. Joseph’s Convent to provide much needed, quality education for girls in Sierra Leone. This institution developed into what is now known as St. Joseph’s Secondary School, currently located at Brookfields in Freetown, Sierra Leone.