BOY FROM SIERRA LEONE BANNED FROM ATTENDING SCHOOL IN THE UK DUE TO EBOLA

A boy from Sierra Leone has been banned from attending a British primary school because  parents are worried about ebola, his mother said yesterday.Kofi Mason-Sesay was due to spend several days at school in Stockport.

But despite being all-clear after a test, parents mounted campaign to have his trip cancelled
They feared nine-year-old Kofi could pass on the deadly virus to children
Kofi’s English mother, Miriam Mason-Sesay, 48, branded parents 'ignorant'
She moved to Sierra Leone to set up an education charity 14 years ago
Headmistress bowed to the pressure and stopped him attending classes  .



Mrs Mason-Sesay set up EducAid, an organisation which aims to educate vulnerable children in Sierra Leone, with her brother in 2000. It teaches 3,000 youngsters across nine boarding schools, mostly in rural locations.
In 2003, she married a local tailor, Alhassan Sesay, and Kofi was born in London in 2005, but the family moved back to Sierra Leone four weeks later.
Mr Sesay died in 2009, aged just 35, of an infection which Mrs Mason-Sesay believes he would have survived if treated in the UK.
After his death, the charity worker decided she never wanted to travel without her son.
Kofi attends the school when he visits the UK with his British mother to see family and friends

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Source: DM