As part of our goal to help develop the next generation of leaders, we recently helped sponsor a leadership training event thanks in part to your generous donations.

We appreciate your ongoing support to help reverse deforestation in Freetown, Sierra Leone.   To help reverse deforestation, 100 seedlings were planted in June.  While it is a slow process,  the seedlings are growing.  As the seedlings continue to grow they will provide protective cover on the land and help prevent soil erosion. Plants and trees slow down water as it flows over the land and this allows much of the rain to soak into the ground. 

Thank you for your support that is empowering small businesses. Our microfinance or microcredit loans give individuals a helping hand to start their businesses or to help them grow their existing businesses.  Adama is one of the small business owners that recently received a microfinance loan and she is also a mudslide survivor.

In her video, she expresses her appreciation saying

Thanks to support from generous donors like you, the Generation 21 Vocational Training School and Salon was able to purchase some new supplies including a hair dryer, mannequin, hairspray, and flat irons.

One of the instructors at the Generation 21 Vocational Training School and Salon explains in this video how the new supplies will be used and expresses her gratitude in the video saying,

Thanks to your donations several young ladies received reusable sanitary kits, which will keep them from missing school.

Abibatu is one of the young ladies that received a reusable sanitary kit.  She just started college this fall and is studying journalism.  She enjoys reading, cooking, and singing. 

Isata, pictured here, is another one of the young ladies that received a reusable sanitary kit.  She is in class six and enjoys singing and math. She hopes to become a doctor when she grows up.

We greatly appreciate your continued support that provided 50-bed nets to students attending the Creating Pathways Center,  which is made up of mostly young, single moms or pregnant unwed young women who are not allowed to return to regular school.  The long-lasting insecticide-treated net (ITNs) they received is one of the main prevention measures that is used to prevent malaria. The nets have been treated with safe, residual insecticide that blocks, kills and repels mosquitoes. 

Thanks to your support, the FAWE students are receiving the vital computer training that they need.  Proficiency in computers in schools, workplaces and in the society as a whole is an absolute requirement for success in today's technology-aided society. Exposing kids especially girls at a younger age plays a very vital role as it helps them to have the basics in computing and also giving them the opportunity to overcome the challenge of computer illiteracy at a very young age.

Your generous support has helped provide students who have no electricity with solar lights. One of the students that recently received a solar light is Bilkissu. Bilkissu is in class six and enjoys reading and going to school. She would like to be a nurse when she grows up. 

We greatly appreciate your support that is helping girls get ready for school this year.  Two of the young ladies that are receiving school support are Tewoh and Marian.

Tewoh is getting ready to start class 6 this year.  She loves going to school and would like to become a politician when she completes her education.

Many families in Sierra Leone were displaced due to the flooding and mudslide disaster that took place on August 14, 2017.  We are deeply grateful for your on-going support that is enabling us to continue to bring hope to flood victims in Freetown.   One of the ways your support helped recently was giving educational support to 30 children that live in the areas affected by the floods last year.  You can see more photos of students receiving support in our photo album.&nb