Many families in Sierra Leone were displaced due to the flooding and mudslide disaster that took place on August 14, 2017.  Your on-going support continues to bring hope to flood victims in Freetown.   Your support helped Salamatu with a microfinance loan so that she could restart her business that had been destroyed by the Flood.

Salamata expresses her gratitude for the loan in this video saying- 

Your ongoing support has helped multiple vocational trainees at the Baptist Women’s Vocational Training Center.  There are currently 22 trainees at the Center and each student is working hard to create a better future for them and their families. 

We greatly appreciate 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.  Aminata 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

We greatly appreciate your support that helped a group of young ladies receive training on sexual health from a health worker. Many adolescent girls become pregnant because they lack the information needed to make informed decisions about their sexuality, family planning, and reproductive health and the training they received gave the young ladies the tools they need to make important and educated decisions. 

We greatly appreciate your continued support of computer skills training in Sierra Leone.  One of the current students, Umu shows us how she has learned to use Microsoft Word in this video and tells us how the Computer Training Center has impacted her life:

We greatly appreciate your support, which is helping young ladies get their education.  Balu and Sara, who are former students of Creating Pathways Centre,  are both now enrolled in a Business Studies Program at the National Centre for Vocational Studies. Both Sara and Balu expressed their deep gratitude to the GlobalGiving donors for the educational support they received. 

Your support is helping future leaders in Nigeria get the education they need to be successful through our partner organization in Nigeria, S.M.I.L.E.   One of the students who has recently benefitted from S.M.I.L.E is Omolola who tells us in her own words how the support she has received has impacted her.

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.

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.