Empower & Educate Girls of Freetown
Tax deductible
Friends of Sierra Leone alongside the Unforgotten Fund Organization needs your support to provide funding for the “Aid for Trash Dump Children” Project in Sierra Leone. This project specifically targets single mothers and their daughters between the ages of 6 and 10 who participate in waste picking. The project has two locations: the Kissy Bomeh dumpsite and the Kingtom Kolleh Town dumpsite in Freetown.
It is said that educating a woman is like educating the whole nation. By providing a quality education for women and girls, communities can deliver a foundation to improve people’s lives and bring sustainable development.
The Unforgotten Fund Organization shares the United Nation’s vision of promoting sustainable development in the poorest areas of this planet. The “Aid for Trash Dump Children” Project by the Unforgotten Fund is designed to provide young girls living in dumpsite communities in Freetown access to primary school education. The project focuses on these dumpsite communities as they tend to have a greater population of women and children; and most of the women are often supporting themselves without a husband or any decent form of employment.
Mothers along with their children search through mountains of trash at dumpsites for food to eat and valuables to sell. These children suffer from educational neglect because their parents cannot provide the necessary financial resources to attend school. They become more vulnerable and are often exposed to sexual and other forms of assault in the community. The main purpose of this project is to enable waste picker children to have the opportunity to be educated and at the same time remove the children from going into the dumpsite to pick trash to eat or sell.
The goal of this project is to provide educational assistance to three hundred vulnerable young girls from the dumpsite community. The project started with twenty girls in 2013 and they are now adding more girls to bring their number up to thirty girls. The girls will go through a bridge school program (with one school being located in each community we serve) for preparation of enrollment in primary school.
The aims and objectives of this project are to:
- To help young girls living in dumpsite communities gain quality primary school education.
- To empower these young girls for future roles in society.
- To decrease child labor and increase access to education in such communities.
- To enroll the young girls into standard primary school closer to their community.
- To ensure that the girls steadily progress in their academics.
- To ensure best attendance records in school.
- To re-energize the community image and influence further development.
In addition to providing education to the girl children in these communities, the Unforgotten Fund is also working to help improve the employment opportunities for their mothers. To this effort we are working to enroll the mothers of the girls in the bridge schools in training classes to help them prepare for a career or a better job opportunity in Freetown. The objective of providing these classes is to help the mothers gain skills to improve their living situation to move outside of the Bohmeh and into better conditions for their children.
Friends of Sierra Leone is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 by a small group of returned Peace Corps Volunteers, soon joined by their Sierra Leonean friends and other volunteers who had served in Sierra Leone. This organization raises funds to support projects throughout Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Note: Any funds received after the goal of $2000 is reached will go into the Friends of Sierra Leone's Project Fund to help fund other projects in the future.
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It is said that educating a woman is like educating the whole nation. By providing a quality education for women and girls, communities can deliver a foundation to improve people’s lives and bring sustainable development.
The Unforgotten Fund Organization shares the United Nation’s vision of promoting sustainable development in the poorest areas of this planet. The “Aid for Trash Dump Children” Project by the Unforgotten Fund is designed to provide young girls living in dumpsite communities in Freetown access to primary school education. The project focuses on these dumpsite communities as they tend to have a greater population of women and children; and most of the women are often supporting themselves without a husband or any decent form of employment.
Mothers along with their children search through mountains of trash at dumpsites for food to eat and valuables to sell. These children suffer from educational neglect because their parents cannot provide the necessary financial resources to attend school. They become more vulnerable and are often exposed to sexual and other forms of assault in the community. The main purpose of this project is to enable waste picker children to have the opportunity to be educated and at the same time remove the children from going into the dumpsite to pick trash to eat or sell.
The goal of this project is to provide educational assistance to three hundred vulnerable young girls from the dumpsite community. The project started with twenty girls in 2013 and they are now adding more girls to bring their number up to thirty girls. The girls will go through a bridge school program (with one school being located in each community we serve) for preparation of enrollment in primary school.
The aims and objectives of this project are to:
- To help young girls living in dumpsite communities gain quality primary school education.
- To empower these young girls for future roles in society.
- To decrease child labor and increase access to education in such communities.
- To enroll the young girls into standard primary school closer to their community.
- To ensure that the girls steadily progress in their academics.
- To ensure best attendance records in school.
- To re-energize the community image and influence further development.
In addition to providing education to the girl children in these communities, the Unforgotten Fund is also working to help improve the employment opportunities for their mothers. To this effort we are working to enroll the mothers of the girls in the bridge schools in training classes to help them prepare for a career or a better job opportunity in Freetown. The objective of providing these classes is to help the mothers gain skills to improve their living situation to move outside of the Bohmeh and into better conditions for their children.
Friends of Sierra Leone is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 by a small group of returned Peace Corps Volunteers, soon joined by their Sierra Leonean friends and other volunteers who had served in Sierra Leone. This organization raises funds to support projects throughout Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Note: Any funds received after the goal of $2000 is reached will go into the Friends of Sierra Leone's Project Fund to help fund other projects in the future.
Visit us at www.fosalone.org
Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FoSalone
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Organizer
Peggy Murrah
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC
Friends of Sierra Leone
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
