Our Proposition
We intend to re-equip all of the town’s schools (26 state + several voluntary schools); all its community and health centres; and any other building used by the community. Our hope is that we can provide the essential and basic furnishings and equipment they need.

Most schools have nothing except a blackboard. What furniture they have is rudimentary and of poor quality. It is made from unseasoned rainforest timber causing huge destruction to a vital environment. To make the maximum use of the containers that will have furniture on them, we will also send clothes, shoes, tools and even building materials.  All of which we are certain will make a difference to the life of the community

Green-Works will make a major contribution to the work of the Waterloo Partnership. It can transport, check, store, process and load furniture and equipment for onward shipping. It will work with the Waterloo Partnership to distribute everything to the community in an equitable manner.

Claire spoke of their need for educational equipment and furniture for schools.  The people also needed a library and resource centre.  I felt that Green-Works had to
help if it could and wrote offering to supply the library with all the internal furnishings – the shelving, the chairs, desks, storage and everything that the library will need.

In February 2007, a colleague and I went to Waterloo, Sierra Leone to see for ourselves  what was needed and ascertain if we could help in any other way. During our visit, we saw dozens of schools and other facilities that had virtually nothing. Everyone we spoke to was very clear what they wanted indeed needed and this was furniture - tables and chairs - so that they could sit and be taught; cupboards to store equipment and resources and books to write in.

The result of this visit is that Greenworks has offered assistance to the Waterloo Partnership in Sierra Leone. We are aiming completing a comprehensive re-equipment of all its community assets.

How Green Works became involved
One autumn morning in 2006 I heard Claire Curtis-Thomas on Radio 4 describing how she’d visited a town in Sierra Leone called Waterloo, which had been on the front line of the recently ended civil war. The town had really suffered; hundreds had died; thousands had been mutilated; all the major buildings had been destroyed; and disease was endemic.