Testimonials

The modest model which TLBPET employs is centred on the unassailable love and belief in the young people of Sierra Leone, for a happy, healthy future; and as we all know when children detect that those adults with whom they engage, feel this, they respond in kind.  Through my talking with Isa I know that Lottie Betts-Priddy fostered this love and belief in those she knew and today the trustees keep it alive.

I feel that by starting with the basics as TLBPET does, literally the bricks and mortar of the modest structures which will house children who WANT to learn and teachers who WANT to teach, an already existing fuse is being lit that Sierra Leoneans will ignite into a veritable bonfire of education and opportunity for the future. The Trust’s aims are not to educate themselves, rather facilitate education in a place where, with some help, it will flourish on its own.  This is an aim with a finite goal and a nurturing stance, not seeking to impose ideals from ‘outside’ onto a struggling system. And I believe for these reasons, it will succeed.  The work of TLBPET is very tangible and I believe local people in communities and in governance will see the outcomes quickly, adding to them, themselves their own efforts and amplifiying the Trust’s work.

Lindsey Bennett - Friend of TLBPET