Girl Power Project - GPP

                                                                                ChildHelp Sierra Leone

                                                GLOBAL GIVING REPORT
                                                            REPORT ON USE OF FUNDS
Project Title: Girl Power
Funds Raised so far: $8,369
Reporting Period: 29^th May, 2017

Response Team Officers: Mrs. Laura Kamara, Kassim and Paul Amadu Bangura

ACTIVITIES / EXPENSES.

1)      Continuing Awareness raising against child marriage, teenage pregnancy and FGM in schools and communities.

2)      Child Help Line call response reached another 6452 children and youths on abuse and neglect.

3)      Community dialogue meeting with parents and stakeholders to end child marriage continues in the identified 28 communities with the message of education before marriage and with Girl Power messages.

4)      26 more girls supported with uniforms, study fees and learning materials in Blama Perri to Mallah section of Pujehun and 23 girl-children in rural Makeni, Bombali district in non-formal primary education.

5)      Mentoring exercises in camping and community centers reaching 78 adolescent girls.

6)      Continued campaigning and awareness over social media network with the goal to reach more girls, including disables and boys continued from February.

7)      Starting identifying new communities with girls left behind that has never gone to schools and recruiting for new scholarships to start in July 2017.

8)      Due to the basic computer literacy provided in the Easter holiday for mostly girls with no access to information and communication.

9)      Due to basic computer literacy, girl-children are still continuing their social media network activities. This was noticed by their likings and comments on ChildHelp’s facebook, LinkedIn, Facepic, in meetings and radio talk, etc.

10)  Girls’ voices and rights are respected.

11)  Contributed improved health and nutrition, and increases the chances of education for the next generation.

12)  Continued the Village Saving Loan Scheme awareness and support through our We Pikin Mothers/Support Group and their respective interventions eg VSLA, Agriculture, campaigns, health campaigns, screening,  cascading, etc reaching 1890 in 17 communities in partnership with SILPA.

REPORT:
With funds from Global Giving, Friends, individual, Anne Frank Fonds, Girls Not Brides, the Bradley Family, ChildHelp still continues to undertake effective activities mentioned above. Though still many of our girls are still affected by the scare of the past EVD crisis in Sierra Leone that caused different effects on their lives, the awareness and support is building momentum and girls are becoming Agents of Change in their communities. Girls have now started to move with the message of ending harmful traditional practices against them and their friends. Members of this group are sponsored vocationally through non-formal education. ChildHelp’s mentor activities has caused shaken against teachers’ relationship with their girls’ student whilst parents congrats ChildHelp’s new order, in giving voice to girls as agents of change.

Funds provided also help girls been driven out of school to return to schools. Child mothers were also supported to enter their non-formal educational vocational and business activities. Friends and Individuals including the Bradley family still continue to support teachers and child-mothers. Outreach activities in communities have help communities on the importance of education, micro-enterprise, livelihood and primary health care of victims of abuse.

ChildHelp is still continuing raising awareness on the issues of drop-outs, teenage pregnant, teenage mothering, FGM and all forms of violence against girls which has become a negative effect on them and their communities, and how to overcome them. In new areas targeted, the need for more girls to go to school is ChildHelp’s priority. Without support, more girls would become dropouts, engaged in illegal practices and ends up losing their body.

The Global Giving platform will still be used, with your help, and the help of your friends, to help promote education and recover the broken economy through scholarships and school kits, provision of cash transfer initiatives, bicycles, computers for information, improving community infrastructures, technical and vocational skills and stimulating local economic development. At the end, our girls that has never been to school or those been dropped or in the stage of dropping out, will return and retain in formal and non-formal schools

ChildHelp will continue to work with identified vulnerable and remote communities in Pujehun, Kenema, Bombali, Koinadugu, Kambia districts in the South, East and Northern Provinces with extension of its Girl Power activities. The little raised will be always used for its purpose and reports will be mailed through Global Giving for donors who supported us. ChildHelp enjoy the partnership and collaboration of its supporters for their continuous support and our staff & volunteers for their best practice. ChildHelp is still appealing to you all for more supports to reach our goal and saves lives before September, 2017 when scholarships and educational items would have been provided to identified girls to return back to schools.

We as ChildHelp Family, are encouraging every supporter, and welcome you back to support our campaign ‘’Girl Power - giving voices to girls’’.  

Thanks to everyone and those who will be supporting us again.

From: Kaprie J G Thoronka, Director, ChildHelp Sierra Leone.