Oct 17th was the International Day of Eradication of Poverty and education is a proven way to alleviate poverty and bring lasting change.

"To Educate Girls is to Reduce Poverty"- Kofi Annan

One of the girls your support has recently helped is Milicent who recently received school supplies and tuition support for this school year. She is starting Senior Secondary School (SSS) this year which is equivalent to high school. Her favorite subject is English and she would like to become a nurse when she completes school.

Today we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child. This year's theme is "Invest in Girls' Rights: Our Leadership, Our Well-being" 

Mentoring sessions empower future leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to be successful.  Mentoring shows mentees the art of the possible, takes the limitations off their thinking, and opens their eyes to the exceptional future that could lie ahead of each of them. 

September 8th is International Literacy Day and it serves as a reminder of the work that remains to be done to ensure that every individual, regardless of their background, has the opportunity to become literate. 

Girls' mentoring sessions are held throughout the year covering a multitude of topics. One topic was drug abuse and its effects, and to make it more interactive the girls were split into groups and were told to write their own play and then act out the skit on why youngsters resorted to taking drugs and how they could seek help if they were struggling with drugs.  

The students and teacher in Kamawornie village express their gratitude to Develop Africa for their support with the extra classes organized for the children after school.   These afterschool classes do not cost the families anything thanks to generous donors like YOU.

Public Relations & Marketing was the topic at a recent mentoring session that was attended by 50 studen

Currently, there are sixty-five students attending computer classes at the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) Computer Lab. The computer classes run in three shifts- one class in the morning and two classes in the afternoon from Monday to Friday.

Over the past several weeks the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) team hosted the 2nd STEM Session using the Legos Mindstorms sets. The Legos STEM project aims to train DASL school-going beneficiaries to build Legos Robots and cultivate their interests in STEM or robotics.

Your generous support helps provide microfinance loans, which empower small businesses like Aminata's. The goal of interest-free microfinance loans is to provide parents/guardians with the ability to support their families.