Building Schools.
Please Support Our Mission
The Max & Ada Bailor Educational Foundation is committed to providing educational and workforce development opportunities that enrich lives and expand access to economic opportunity. We equip students and emerging professionals with the knowledge, leadership skills, and professional readiness necessary for long-term success. Additionally, we unite communities around initiatives that improve quality of life, including education, clean water, and health and hygiene. Through these efforts, we empower individuals and strengthen communities for future generations.
Building Hope.
Building Futures.
The Challenge
The challenge is real and exigent, and is compounded by poverty, gender discrimination, long distances to schools, perceived low value placed on education, negative social norms practices such as early marriage (30 per cent of women are married before age 18), teenage pregnancy, and unsafe learning environments...
How You Can Help!
Since 2005, the Max & Ada Bailor Educational Foundation has provided trusted primary education in the northern part of Sierra Leone, in a tiny village called Kagbaray Bomkapr in Karene District. With your support, we are expanding beyond primary school to build Junior and Senior Secondary Schools, ensuring children can continue their education through graduation...
This is the story of Max & Ada Bailor, a couple whose love for God, family, people, and education transcended every cultural and tribal barrier that one could imagine existed in Sierra Leone at the time. Sierra Leone has a very informal, but highly effective foster parent culture. One that allows any parent to entrust their child into the care of someone they believe can help create a better life for that child...
The Max & Ada Bailor Story
Why we are concerned
(Source: SaveTheChildren.org)
60% of Girls struggle to read and write.
15% of girls (ages 15-19) are married.
30% of children are out of school
30% of children suffer from stunting and malnutrition
1 child in 10 dies before their 5th birthday, 15 times the U.S. rate
At the primary school level, completion rates for boys and girls are fairly close (63% boys vs. 65% girls), but at the upper secondary level, completion drops more drastically especially for girls (27% boys vs. 18% girls). Factors like pregnancy and child marriage contribute to higher dropout rates among girls (https://www.iicba.unesco.org/en/sierra-leone)
Youth literacy rate for males (ages 15-24) was 75.23% in 2022, showing a decline from 78.2% in 2019. For females, the youth literacy rate is lower at 59.29%, according to recent data estimates for 2025. The overall youth literacy rate combining both genders is about 67.57%. (https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Sierra-Leone/Male_literacy_rate_15_24/)