By Kaprie J. G. Thoronka | Executive Director
REPORT TO GLOBALGIVING FEBRUARY 2018
Organisation: ChildHelp Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
Project Locations: Western area - Freetown and Bombali District – Largo community
Donor: GlobalGiving Foundation (UK/USA)
Amount of money raised: $3,865
Number of beneficiaries supported: 93 school children
Reporting date: February 12th, 2018
Description:
Serra Leone is a former British Colony with temperatures and humidity so high, and rainfall is heavy. The relative humidity ranges from an average of 80% during the wet season to about 50% during the dry season.
Due to continuous cutting down of trees and building thousands of homes in restricted and mountainous areas, Sierra Leone has experienced the worst hit of mudslides and massive flooding disaster. Since November, 2017, 93 school children being displaced and homeless due to the disaster were relocated to the provinces.
ChildHelp Sierra Leone is still holding meetings and consultations with authorities in the best interest of the affected children as our priority, finding possible solutions for sustainability in line with the SDGs. Much attention has been on the affected children aged 7 - 19 years affected in August 2017, by the disaster in six community locations (Culvert, Dworzak, Kamayamah, Kanikay, Kaningo and Regent), are now in their new communities in the rural northern province of Sierra Leone.
The relocated 93 school children now in their new locations are being supported in full as an emergency support in the form of food, education, health and housing facilities. Activities such as the farming and income generation is in progress for the coming raining seasons, which will be help caregivers an parents meet the need of their children, as this will help them to start a new life.
GlobalGiving foundation grant was used to support these children and their families who are now based in new locations in the rural North that have started a new life.
Challenges: More funding is needed. The campaign funding needed is USD 32,000. 18 donations in the amount of $3,865 have been made so far and more donations are needed to meet the need of the 93 school children and others who have returned home. These school children still need more school supplies, school desks and chairs, water and sanitary facilities. Their returning parents are still requesting gardening, Village-Saving and Loaning support and micro-enterprise activities that would help them to be financially equipped and self reliant.
ChildHelp SL is convinced that supporting these returning families and their children will help them break free from the cycle of poverty and trauma. From the recent meetings held, ChildHelp has found out that, there are still more children who were affected are still out there without support. More funding is needed to support them so that these children would be sent back to school. With continued support from you all, we can be able to share the joy, ending child poverty and educating these children to be good citizens of tomorrow – our future leaders.
Thanks to all our supporters of the ChildHelp’s Mudslide and Flooding Relief and other projects in the GlobalGiving. Thanks also to the most honored supporter GlobalGiving Foundation for their good and best practice toward our children and our nation. God bless you all.
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