Helping Abused Girls, Sierra Leone

To our Donors, Families, Colleagues and Friends:

We wish each and everyone of our Donors, Families, Colleagues, Volunteers and Friends a more peaceful, caring and loving Year 2023. Through your help, donations and volunteering these past years, we have been able to:

Provide communities with the right tools to get empowered and be able to further develop in an independent way.

Train professionals (healthcare/community leaders/police/teachers) to apply ACT and PROSOCIAL with individuals, groups and families.

Provide the Shelter for Abused girls and women from sexual violence and domestic abuse.

Provide conflict solution skills to bring peace to their homes benefitting entire families.

Provide MY BODY MY RIGHT-the Female Genital Mutilation-that c+a empowers girls, parents and communities to avoid FGM.

Provide Radio drama series, where 72% of citizens listen daily regarding gender based violence.

We also wish to acknowledge our preeminent Volunteer Dr Thomas Szabo who is taking leave of commit+act. Thomas helped train staff that helped build their abilities, capacities and skills; fund-raised for the organization; conducted research on DARE project; posted information on Commit+Act Foundation on social media and many more projects which were all vital to the activities of c+a in Sierra Leone as well as the US.

The NEW Year has just began, but we are ready and prepared for the many good things that are to come our way, with great energy, enthusiasm and affection for all of you.

In gratitude,

Jennifer Nardozzi, PsyD

Board Member and US Representative

To our Donors, Colleagues, Families, Friends and Supporters:

Greetings from commit+act, a group founded in Sierra Leone in 2013. A shelter for abused girls, 1,688 girls and women who have come to our shelter since 2013 and who have received help, counseling, education on their health, and psychological sessions to help them move forward to a more stable and better life.

We have had different projects through the years, one of which is the sustainability of the agricultural project.

This project is to grow food and to feed people in their own neighborhood. We have learned that people who do not have their basic needs met, so many other things in their lives are impacted. There is often an increase in violence in families and communities when people are fighting over their most basic resources.

Hannah Bockarie, the Director of commit+act in Sierra Leone had traveled to Germany where the main office of Commit + Act, the original founder of commit+act in Sierra Leone is located. While in Germany, she participated in fundraising projects, as a result she was able to purchase a tractor which is now being used in the agriculture project in Makeni, Sierra Leone.

Helping them create sustainability in their basic needs, and helping them overcome their basic struggles, is the current project we are focusing on in Sierra Leone.

To you, our donors, colleagues, famillies, friends and supporters, we deeply appreciate your loyal help, encouragement and are grateful for your contributions.

In deep gratitude,

Jennifer Nardozzi, PsyD

US Representative and Board Member

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Dear Donors, Families, Colleagues and Friends:

We are happy to report that Mrs. Hannah Bockarie, the County Director of Sierra Leone'a Commit+Act Foundation is visiting Germany this month.

Dr. Beate Ebert, the Director of the German company that originally founded Commit+Act has arranged for Hannah to meet with representatives from One Day, Germany Doctors and Kindermission, all of whom have ccontributed greatly to the commit+act activities in Sierra Leone.

We continue wirh our Webinar series. Most recently, Russ Harris gave a webinar with proceeds going to commit+act. His experiential webinar demonstrates in simple, clear, non-technical language many ways to talk about and facilitate the experience of self-as-context-from lengthy interventions such as the classic "observe exercise" to extremely brief ones.

We are grateful for the help we have received from our family of Donors, Colleagues and friends and hope and pray for the continuation of this beautiful relationship.

In gratitude,

Jennifer Nardozzi, PsyD

Board Member and U.S. Representative

Dear Donors, Families, Colleagues and Friends:

 We are now in the New Year of 2022 - HOW WE ALL LOOKED FORWARD TO THIS NEW YEAR!!!

We wish all of you a New Year filled with continued enthusiasm for our projects, new hopes, new aspirations, great fellowship, and most of all, good health and getting COVID behind us. We know that there are some countries around the world that have not yet been able to get the vaccines or have not been able to be vaccinated more than once. We hope and pray that countries, such as Sierra Leone, be given the help and assistance in order to combat this dreaded virus.

We enter this New Year with the continued participation of some of the most well respected therapist in Psychology, who are delivering presentations via webinar. Russ Hunter is giving his webinar through PsycWire on February 24, 2022 at 5:00-7:00 p.m. EST. All proceeds from these webinars are donated to our c+a.

We have been revamping the entire website which is led by Alba, our new Team member. She is working on many different aspects of media and all aspects of the website.

Our Sierra Leone Commit +Act held their general meeting of staff and volunteers to review our past year, to honor the staff and particularly, the volunteers who gave of their time and most of all, to our donors who have kept us going with the projects needed in Sierra Leone. It also will give us the opportunity to reflect on the projects for this New Year, how to improve our programs to benefit more abused girls in Bo, Sierra Leone, as well as give more help to our current group of abused girls who are being helped and maintained in our Shelter.

We are grateful for the help and donations during the Pandemic year, but our hearts are filled with gratitude that we have a New Year to give us another start to live our vision.

Our vision is  that in the face of all circumstances, people choose to create and live their lives according to their values and empower others to do the same.

With gratitude,

Dr. Jennifer Nardozzi, PsyD

US Representative and Board Member

To our Donors, Families, Associates, Colleagues and Friends:

We are thankful and grateful that although each of us was affected directly or indirectly by COVID 19, we all are here together again and being helped by the vacciness that have become available. We are once again, UNITED in our work, dedication and activities.

We are happy to report that Mr. Ruben Rozental,one of our USA Volunteers, was a finalist in the Invest in Others Prize. As a result of his association with Invest in Others, c+a received a donation of $20,000.

We at Commit & Act are incredibly grateful to an organization called PPL for their generous contribution of $6,845. This will help our sustainable projects at the Shelter, insuring that the girls and the women at the Shelter ccontinue to have avenues to build a better future for themselves,

Mr. Thomas Szabo, another USA Volunteer, is working on developing the research for DARE, which is a program for couples to help decrease domestic violence in Sierra Leone.

We thank you for your continued support and help and hope for your continuing interest and participation.

In gratitude,

Dr. Jennifer Nardozzi

US Representative and Board Member