Koinadugu College Receives Accreditation; Sets Launch Date

We are proud to announce that the college has received the necessary accreditations from the Tertiary Education Committee (TEC) and NCTA boards - allowing the school to begin short course registration this July and an official launch of its undergraduate degree program in October 2023.

Koinadugu College will be a model One Health campus and the first higher institution of learning for the people of Koinadugu and Falaba Districts.  This college will also benefit as a key center to support UW-Madison’s Global Health Institute, as Sierra Leone recently became its African hub. 

Built on the Project 1808, Inc. model, Koinadugu College brings experiential learning along with the values of Sustainability, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Indigenous knowledge, Pan-African education, and global thinking.

Our partner, Dr. Alhaji N’jai had this to say of this announcement: “So many amazing people to THANK along this journey of dreams to reality, and it will take an entire book to do. Feeding Mouths, Filling Minds, Maria Nicholas-Groves, Sarah Fracek, Strides For Africa, Chris Jimieson, Dr. Susan Balmes from Lake Michigan College, the Project1808 Family and team. We made it beyond odds!”

A huge thank you to Strides for Africa donors over the past five years to support this grassroots effort on its challenging journey to becoming a reality. Your contributions have helped to build a 74 feet deep clean water well powered by a generator to provide running water to the main campus.  In addition, Strides for Africa has funded the main campus’s latrine structure, solar-powered the academic buildings on the main campus, and helped to refurbish the academic buildings and grounds leased from the Red Cross to provide us the space to start at the right scale. 

We look forward to sharing more updates as the doors open to Koinadugu College!