On January 15, 2022, the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) team conducted the first boys' mentoring session, which was made possible thanks in part to your generous support in 2021. Eighteen boys attended this first boys’ mentoring session. Toiletries (body cream, shower gel, spritz, shaving blade, etc.) were distributed among the mentees as a take-home package.  Transportation, food, and drinks were also provided to the boys in attendance.

We are truly grateful for every donation made to benefit students in Sierra Leone.   Light of the World is a non-profit club with the mission of raising money to provide solar lanterns for children around the world who are currently using harmful kerosene lanterns & to make an impact in the world through community service.   They donated 40 solar lights to

Your support is helping future leaders, like Franklyn, get their education. Franklyn received an iPad to help him with school work.

Franklyn expresses his gratitude for the support he recently received in this video

Thanks to your ongoing support of future leaders’ education, 29 students in Bo, Sierra Leone received financial support to pay for their school fees and school supplies for the 2021-2022 school year.   The students receiving school support ranged from Nursery school all the way through Senior Secondary school.

Students in Freetown are looking forward to starting school this year because you helped cover their school fees making school possible for 86 students. Of those 86 students 46 were primary school students (nursery school through class 6) and 40 of those students were in secondary school (Junior Secondary school through Senior Secondary School 3).

These 86 students also each received a book bag containing notebooks,  erasers, pens & pencils, crayons, a ruler, an umbrella, and a pencil sharpener. 

Nearly 1 in 4 girls of primary school age are out of school in sub-Saharan Africa.  There are currently 5.5 million more out-of-school girls of primary school age than boys, worldwide.

The barriers that deter children from attending primary school vary across and within countries but are often associated with poverty, geographic remoteness, armed conflict, lack of school infrastructure, and poor-quality education. Moreover, these obstacles often interact with gender inequality to intensify learning disadvantages for marginalized girls.

One of the future leaders that your generous donations have helped support is Franklyn. Franklyn has been a part of the Develop Africa sponsorship program since he was 9 years old in class 5.  His father has not been a part of his life since he was very young, and his mom struggled to send him and two older brothers and one younger brother to school.