By Peace Child International | Project Leader
Thanks to your generous support we are excited to report that the training of 100 vulnerable young women has now started in two small rural villages in Sierra Leone called Nganyahun Sawura and Nganyahun Buuma in the chiefdom of Nongowa, Kenema. These rural and remote villages are still recovering from the devastating impact of the deadly Ebola outbreak of 2014.
The young women in these villages have little or no education and have not had any training or support until now. The majority of the young women we have started training have, until now, been selling on the streets whatever goods they can find. They rarely make any profit and struggle to feed themselves and their families. Through this training, you are now helping them to learn vital business skills which will ensure they can create their own, sustainable business. They will learn to identify opportunities in their local environment and scale their businesses to ensure they can generate a sustainable income all year round. This sustainable income will transform their lives. It will allow them to afford food for themselves and their families, send their children to school and afford vital medicine.
Our programme manager in Sierra Leone, Alpha Beretay told us:
"The women have just started the training and are incredibly enthusiastic. They are finding the visual training tools that we have specially designed for young people with little or no education, really easy to understand. The young women see a promising future in the training which will help them to meet their household and livelihood needs and they are so happy to be selected".
The Chief of the villages where we have just started running the training said: “I am very excited and proud that the training had been brought to my village. I am looking forward to seeing the impact of the training on the lives of the young women and the community as a whole.”
We are excited to see the long term impact of your kind donation and hope you are proud of your contribution to this very worthwhile programme. The training is expected to take three months to complete so we will be in touch again with an update on the women.
Thank you from everyone at Peace Child International.
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