The one where she heals through education with Co-Founder & Country Director of Educaid Sierra Leone, Miriam Mason

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English - January 18, 2022 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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In this episode, Zeinab & Trisha join Co-Founder & Country Director of Educaid Sierra Leone, Miriam Mason, as she explains how she built a not-for-profit to enable underprivileged children to receive high quality education. Arriving in Sierra Leone in 2000 at the end of the civil war, Miriam started a school in her backyard with 20 children, which has now grown to a network of 9 schools serving over 3,000 students. Miriam shares her entrepreneurial journey to build Educaid, her passion for education, and how she was able to influence country-wide change by building a standard for high quality education at Educaid. If you would like to donate to Educaid or learn more about the organization, please visit:

https://www.educaid.org.uk/

Episode chapters:

2:50: How Educaid started

7:17: Moving to Sierra Leone after the civil war

10:20: Defining and scaling high quality education

16:58: Being a catalyst for change

19:14: Influencing change in Sierra Leone

21:46: Raising funds

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