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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. Greatest Command: Love God with All, and love your neighbor as yourself. (Luke 10:27)
 

2. Great Commission: Go, make disciples, and teach them to obey everything God commanded.
(Matthew 28:18- 20)

 

3. Unity in Christ (John 17:20,21)
 

4. Heart 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.

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