Your on-going support is greatly appreciated and continues to bring hope and normalcy to flood victims in Freetown.   Many families in Sierra Leone were displaced due to the flooding and mudslide disaster that took place in August of 2017, including the Dumbuya family who lost everything in the flood.  

Thanks to your ongoing support multiple vocational trainees, like Adama, are getting the training they need to empower themselves and become self-reliant. 

Your generous support is empowering small businesswomen, like Olivette, in Sierra Leone with interest-free microfinance loans. Olivette tells us in her own words how much the support she’s received has meant to her and her family and how it changed her story.

In the video she says-

Your support is helping underprivileged children in Liberia stay in school, effectively learn, and get a decent education. By upgrading the quality of education offered in schools, we are helping to transform communities and the entire nation. Investing in children's education is critical for a nation's development.

One of the students your support is helping in Liberia is Alex, pictured here. Alex is only four, but he already loves going to school and enjoys writing and spelling. He also enjoys playing football and he helps his mom wash dishes.

We are excited that the seedlings planted over the summer are continuing to grow.  These seedlings while still not very big, are the start of reforestation, which is crucial in Sierra Leone.  Your ongoing support is helping reverse deforestation in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated as it continues to make an impact on the students at Success Tall Academy.  Thanks in part to support from GlobalGiving donors backpacks were distributed to twenty students attending the Success Tall Academy Primary School on November 20, 2019.  Each student received one backpack containing- seven exercise books, one packet colored pencils, five pens, one ruler, one packet sharpeners and two erasers.

Meet Balusa. Balusa lives in Kamawornie - a village is located at Sella Limba Chiefdom, Bombali District, Northern Province.

In the included photo you can see her proudly showing us her new D-light solar light.

Kamawornie is a remote village and unfortunately has no access to electricity.

Your support has made a lasting impact on Mbalu's life. We are excited to share her success story with you.   She tells us in her own words how much your support has helped her saying-

Education is the only way out of poverty for people like us coming from low-income backgrounds.

Thanks to your support, a new set of girls at the FAWE school excitedly started classes this fall. 

Classes started with the introduction to computers including the following topics (definition of computer, functions of a computer, computer components, which include hardware and software, input and output devices, examples of input and output devices, the central processing unit (CPU), primary and secondary Memory, Software types, System Software, Application Software, Unit of measurement, Storage measurement and Computer Classification).

We greatly appreciate your support for future Sierra Leone leader, Theresa.  Theresa expressed in her own words how she is doing and what your support means to her-

I am Theresa, a beneficiary of Develop Africa/ Creating Pathways Center. When I gained admission to study BSc. Public Health at the University of Makeni Sierra Leone, it became challenging financially. Nevertheless, Develop Africa always supports me and thanks to you I am a final year student.