A one-month training workshop for 200 untrained and unqualified (UU) teachers drawn from the 11 chiefdoms in the Port Loko district has ended at the Guadalupeh secondary school in Lunsar.

The focus of the training was on core subjects like language arts, mathematics, social studies and emergency issues that have to do with HIV/AIDS, gender, and human rights.

The training had a number of service providers including CORD Sierra Leone, Plan Sierra Leone and ansarul development services, ANDIES while resource persons were drawn from Njala University, Montec and Port Loko teachers college.

Deputy director of education in the district Ismail Sankoh outlined government's desires to enhance quality education and urged for the co-operation of all concerned.

District supervisor Alhaji M.F. Kamara spoke of the difficulties in retaining trained and qualified teachers for distant schools and in remote areas.

Sankoh said teachers have been so serviceable in the rural settings that the ministry has thought it wise to upgrade their standards through such training workshops.

Inspector of school Abass Kamara and Daniel Conteh Moi, a centre supervisor also made meaningful contributions and appealed to both facilitators and participants to give in their best.