The students at Bitame Lucia Nursery and Primary School (BLIS)  are back in school and thanks to generous donors like you several students have received tuition support and school supplies.  One of the students that started school this year is Nebimi. 

As part of our goal to help develop the next generation of leaders, we recently helped sponsor a leadership training event thanks in part to your generous donations.

We appreciate your ongoing support to help reverse deforestation in Freetown, Sierra Leone.   To help reverse deforestation, 100 seedlings were planted in June.  While it is a slow process,  the seedlings are growing.  As the seedlings continue to grow they will provide protective cover on the land and help prevent soil erosion. Plants and trees slow down water as it flows over the land and this allows much of the rain to soak into the ground. 

Thank you for 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.  Adama 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

Thanks to support from generous donors like you, the Generation 21 Vocational Training School and Salon was able to purchase some new supplies including a hair dryer, mannequin, hairspray, and flat irons.

One of the instructors at the Generation 21 Vocational Training School and Salon explains in this video how the new supplies will be used and expresses her gratitude in the video saying,

Your support has made an impact for Autism therapy in Senegal.  Below is the update submitted from the Dakar Team. 

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.

Your support has helped provide children in Liberia with school supplies for their new school year. The parents who were not able to purchase all the needed school supplies were very thankful for the school supplies that their children received.

We greatly appreciate your continued support that provided 50-bed nets to students attending the Creating Pathways Center,  which is made up of mostly young, single moms or pregnant unwed young women who are not allowed to return to regular school.  The long-lasting insecticide-treated net (ITNs) they received is one of the main prevention measures that is used to prevent malaria. The nets have been treated with safe, residual insecticide that blocks, kills and repels mosquitoes. 

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.