In June 2022, the DASL program team facilitated a Lego project pilot; two sessions were organized (June 18^th & June 25^th) for ten young ladies using the 5 Legos Mindstorms sets purchased and shipped to Sierra Leone thanks in part to generous donors like you. 

Thanks in part to your support, another girl’s mentoring session was held at the end of May on Leadership and Smart Thinking. The goal of the mentoring session was to discuss adolescent leadership and smart thinking and to teach the girls essential problem-solving tips.  Thirty-four young ladies between the ages of 10-20 years old in Freetown attended the mentoring session. Food and transportation money was provided to all participants.  

Thanks to your ongoing support of girls' education, 100 girls at the FAWE School, an all-girl school, received notebooks to use in class.   A total of 624 notebooks were distributed to the pupils present ranging from class 1 to class 5.  

During the distribution, the girls were grateful for the notebooks they were receiving.  A senior teacher at FAWE said-

One of the ways educational support is provided to young ladies is through vocational training.  This provides crucial training in marketable skills, which are vital for poverty reduction, economic recovery, and sustainable development.  

Thanks in part to your ongoing support 27 drums full of school supplies have arrived in Sierra Leone. Distributions to multiple schools and students will take place in August as students get ready to go back to school in September. 

We greatly appreciate your ongoing educational support for students in Sierra Leone.  The hardware & networking students recently had a practical. Prior to the practical, they had been practicing how to install an operating system on a virtual machine.  For the practical, the students were set up in teams and had to open the system units and remove the faulty hard drive and the old CMOS battery and then replace both with newer units that were purchased thanks in part to generous donors like you.

Thanks to your ongoing support of girls' education, 66 girls at Hope Academy Secondary School in York, an all-girl school, received notebooks to use in class.   A total of 432 notebooks were distributed to the pupils present.  

During the distribution, the girls were grateful for the notebooks they were receiving. The founder of the school emotionally expressed her gratitude to Develop Africa and donors for such a wonderful donation saying

The mentoring program took 47 students (28 girls & 19 boys) on a field trip to York Village. Thanks in part to your support, each attendee received a take-home package of cornflakes, 1 roll of powder milk, one packet of sugar, and packets of biscuits. Transportation and lunch were also provided to the beneficiaries.

Currently, there are 85 students attending computer classes at the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) Computer Lab. There will also be two more classes added in the next month for Hardware and Networking and for the Microsoft Office package. The students are at varying levels in their computer training, which includes Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft PowerPoint.