Because of your support, we were able to respond to the immediate need of the Dumbuya family. We provided a wide range of food items including rice, onions, salt/spices, groundnuts and other cooking items.
This was a tremendous and welcome help to them - as they were then staying temporarily with a neighbor. We also had the opportunity to provide counseling to them during their time of loss - due to passing away of the youngest daughter.
Thank you for your support in our ongoing efforts to reverse deforestation in Sierra Leone.
Thank you so much for donating towards this project - to help provide scholarships for girls.
Your support helped ship 14 drums from Johnson City, TN to Kentucky (More Photos). The school supplies were then airlifted to Northern Cameroon. Our implementing partner, the Civil Affairs Team - US Army, is distributing the school supplies in Garoua, Cameroon. The team has been working tirelessly with the village and school leaders to address some of the village's vulnerabilities and help minimize the influence of Boko Haram in the region
Your continued support is empowering small businesses. Our microfinance or microcredit loans give individuals a helping hand to get their businesses going or to help them grow their existing businesses. Stella is one of the small business owners that recently benefitted from a microfinance loan.
Thank you so much for helping provide a scholarship for Isaac. Through your support, he has received some of the funding she needed to pay for her tuition, books, school supplies and related school expenses. We are so very grateful for your support.
Thanks to your support, Isaac is excitedly going to school each day. He is working hard on doing well in school.
Through your support, Mary has received some of the funding she needs to advance her education. We are so very grateful for your support that is getting Mary closer to her goal of going to college and study Economics. We are excited about the future that is in store for her.
She is in the process of retaking her high school exams. In her video, she expresses her gratitude -
Your ongoing support has helped multiple vocational trainees. Your generosity is truly making a lifelong impact on these individuals and their families.
Below is the story of Kadijatu, a current tailoring trainee, as told in her own words. Your support is helping to cover the costs of tailoring school - so Kadijatu and many others can be empowered by skills that will help them become self-sufficient.
Even today fewer opportunities and options are provided to girls/women in Sierra Leone. While this is a global issue, the impact of this is crippling to the destinies of girls in Sierra Leone. Imagine having to drop out of school so your brother can continue. Imagine not getting all the supplies that you need to be successful in school. We could go on and on ...and on.
You can also imagine the questions that run through the minds of the girls. You can also almost hear their silent cries for help and for a chance to further their education.
Thanks to your generous donations, over 200 bed nets were distributed to families in Freetown, Kamawornie, Bo, Liberia, and Cameroon in 2017. These bed nets are providing families with protection from malaria while they sleep. Our goal is to provide even more bed nets to families in 2018. We want to change the statistics below.
Africa is the most affected due to a combination of factors:
Make a Difference Today: Donate to the Year of the Pencil Campaign
On November 20th, this movement placed over 100,000 pencils into the hands
of children across Sierra Leone in 20 schools.
Each pencil tells a story — of hope, opportunity, and possibility.
Education is more than lessons — it’s liberation.
Every $25 helps children write their dreams.
👉 Help provide pencils by donating today!
