T R A N S F O R M A T I O N
E D U C A T I O N
Education for God's Glory in Sierra Leone
• Elementary school participation: 63% • High school participation: 35% • Life Expectancy at Birth, 2010: 47% • % of pop.below international poverty line of US $1.25 per day, 2000-2009: 53% info: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sierra-leone/
Transformation education got its roots with Mercy Ship, Child Development Program (CDP)
Generous donations are helping to reach children daily with education and show Christ's love.
• Elementary school participation: 63% • High school participation: 35% • Life Expectancy at Birth, 2010: 47% • % of pop.below international poverty line of US $1.25 per day, 2000-2009: 53% info: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sierra-leone/
ABOUT US
Transformation Education Inc is a USA 501c3, that supports Sierra Leone’s Transformation Education, a Community Based Organization (CBO) serving the education sector.
CORE VALUES:
1. Love God with all your heart, strength and mind, and love your neighbors as yourself. (Luke 10:27)
2. Go, Make Disciples, and teach them to obey everything Christ commanded.
(Matthew 28:18-20)
3. Unity in Christ (John 17:20, 21)
4. Repentant, Reconciled Hearts set on things above. (Colossians 3)
5. Clothed with Christian Character kindness, humility, meekness, patience… (Colossians 3)
HISTORY:
Transformation Education started as a program of World Hope International in 2007. In 2012 Transformation Education registered in Sierra Leone as a Community-Based Organization (CBO) and Ripe for Harvest became the USA-based sending agent. Transformation Education Inc. was established as a nonprofit organization in the United States in 2018 and continues to support Transformation Education in Sierra Leone.
TRANSFORMATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PHILOSOPHY
Step 1: Help people discover their identity is related to Christ through God's redemptive purpose in history
Step 2: Development of character, instilling and forming values that permit a better vision of the future and that allow people to love others as themselves, seeking to be life-enhancing for all.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER:
Gwendolyn Joy Smith became a Christian at the age of four, then when she was five, she had the desire to be a foreign missionary and a teacher. She is a 1996 graduate of Pennsylvania State University and a 2016 California Baptist University MS graduate. She has taught school in the US, Honduras, and England. Mercy Ship’s Child Development Project introduced her to West Africa from 2002-2005. In 2007 she returned full-time to Sierra Leone as founder and Director of Transformation Education. She continues as the CEO, currently based in the United States.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SIERRA LEONE:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sierra-leone/