Projects & Events

Annual Fundraiser Dinner

  • Saturday, May 17, 2025 – 6-10 PM
  • Bible Korean United Methodist Church, Dix Hills, NY

Please join us for the annual fundraiser dinner for The Magic Penny Foundation to benefit The Primary School in Bompehtoke, Sierra Leone Africa

  • Established TMP in 2004
  • We have constructed 3 school buildings in order to provide free primary school education in Bompehtoke, Sierra Leone
  • Will provide free tuition to 437 primary school students this year
  • Has provided free tuition to over 2,000 primary school students
  • Built 3 wells
  • Built a separate teachers’ living quarters
  • Built a play area and built a soccer field
  • Donated sports equipment to the students and the community

TMP provides the following:

  • We pay all teachers’ salaries on a monthly basis
  • College tuition to 5 teacher’s assistants (this upcoming school year)
  • 2 free uniforms to each student every year
  • Self-sustaining vegetable gardens on the school campus
  • Medical supplies/services and food assistance to the communities
  • Feminine products kits to the students
  • Scholarships to deserving students to continue their secondary education
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Helping Hand Scholarship

The Magic Penny has been promoting education in rural Sierra Leone, West Africa, for almost two decades. TMP supports two primary schools in the village of Bompehtoke and, through its Chief Pieh scholarships, sends children on to middle and high schools in other towns. Now, these students have reached middle school age and support for them to continue their education is critical and more costly. The Magic Penny Helping Hand scholarship program will provide support for a student to attend middle through high school for seven years in a larger town/city. For one year a scholarship of $180 will cover tuition, books, uniforms and travel, and will help to defray the costs of boarding with other families. Scholarship monies can be paid in total, or in three installments, due March 15, August 15 and December 15.

How to Sponsor a Student Scholarship:

The Global Justice Club
of Harborfields High School

Every year, The Global Justice Club of Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, NY, raises money for The Magic Penny. Under the supervision of faculty member Michelle DaSilva, the students put on a fantastic talent show, and then hand over the check. Thanks Global Justice!

Could your group be added to our Sponsors list?