Your generous support is continuing to help provide microfinance loans, which helps small businesses like Adama's petty trading business. The goal of microfinance loans is to provide parents/guardians with the ability to support their families.

We are truly grateful for every donation and supporter of these young ladies, like Theresa, in Freetown.  We are so thankful to be a part of her story.

Then in 2015:

Theresa found out about Develop Africa back in 2015 when she became pregnant during the Ebola Outbreak.  Girls who were visibly pregnant were not allowed to go back to school.  To help with this, Develop Africa opened the Creating Pathways Centre, which was set up to help girls like Theresa.

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support for the future leaders in Sierra Leone. Thanks to you, more youths and young adults are getting the computer training they need for success in today's technology-driven environment.

There are currently 51 students attending computer training at the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) Computer lab.  The current computer classes at DASL Computer Lab run in three shifts. Shifts run on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, or on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Classes are held from 9:30-11:30am, 12:00pm-2pm, and from 3:00pm to 5:15pm every day.

Your support is greatly appreciated as it continues to make an impact on the future leaders in Sierra Leone. Thanks to your generous support a new hands-free washing station was recently set up at Dantrimark Academy at Waterloo.

The students at Dantrimark Academy at Waterloo were encouraged to use the hands-free washing stations not only during this period of Covid-19 but on an ongoing basis as it helps promote much-needed hygiene in their schools and reduce the spread of germs.

Even though International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8th each year,  GlobalGiving is honoring women all week with 50% matching on all donations through March 12 up to $50. You can make an even greater impact this week on girls' education. Girls today, women in leadership tomorrow!

"A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change.
So let's all choose to challenge.

Thanks to your ongoing support, the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) team held another girls’ mentoring program in late February on the topic of adolescent reproductive health. Twenty young ladies in Freetown attended February’s mentoring session. One of the girl’s, Joy, tells us in this video what she learned today-

Thanks to you, girls are getting the support they need to become future leaders in Africa. This past week a hands-free washing station was set up at Hope Academy for Girls at York Village.

The students at Hope Academy were encouraged to use the hands-free washing stations not only during this period of Covid-19 but on an ongoing basis as it helps promote much-needed hygiene in their schools and reduce the spread of germs.

Your support of underprivileged children in Liberia is greatly appreciated. The Henry B. Bennah, Sr. School reopened on January 4, 2021, after a lengthy closure due to the pandemic. The school closed in March 2020 at the outset of the virus in Liberia. It was initially scheduled to reopen in August 2020; but as the number of COVID -19 cases raised, the decision was made to postpone the reopening date until January 4, 2021. The decision to reopen was based on directives from Liberia’s Education Ministry at the advice of the country’s CDC. 

Your support is greatly appreciated as it continues to make an impact on the future leaders in Sierra Leone. Thanks to your generous support families in Bo, including students Magdelene, Tewoh, and David (pictured with their parents), received extra support in the form of half a bag of rice, one gallon of cooking oil, and onions.

One of the student's, Magdelene, said

Thanks to your generous support, girls are receiving not only school supplies and school support, but are also receiving food to help with their needs. Families, like Aminata's, received extra support in the form of half a bag of rice, one gallon of cooking oil, and onions.

Aminata's dad, Suliaman expressed his gratitude saying-