Thanks to your ongoing support 21 vocational trainees graduated recently, 2 men and 19 women with practical skills training offered in the centre include tailoring, literacy and numeracy, life skills, business skills, and others/related arts like soap making, beadwork, rug making, doll making, gara tie-dye. 

Your support helped provide children in Kamawornie with new shoes, bringing smiles to the students. You can watch some of them receiving their new shoes in this video https://youtu.be/U9IW_riKCds  

Many families in Kamawornie, a remote village in northern Sierra Leone, live in extreme poverty. The new shoes were greatly appreciated by both the students and their parents.   Thank you for your generosity!  

Because of YOU, more girls are getting their education and the support they need to become future leaders in Africa. The FAWE school, an all-girls school, was able to add 6 new monitors to their computer lab thanks to your support.

The teacher reports that the classes were so effective that the girls love coming to their computer class. The students are now showing proficiency in moving the mouse, typing on the keyboard, changing the desktop background, changing date/time, opening programs like LibreOffice Writer, closing/minimizing/maximizing programs, and many more.

Your generous support is continuing to help provide microfinance loans, which helps small businesses like Adama's petty trading business. The goal of microfinance loans is to provide parents/guardians with the ability to support their families.

We are truly grateful for every donation and supporter of these young ladies, like Theresa, in Freetown.  We are so thankful to be a part of her story.

Then in 2015:

Theresa found out about Develop Africa back in 2015 when she became pregnant during the Ebola Outbreak.  Girls who were visibly pregnant were not allowed to go back to school.  To help with this, Develop Africa opened the Creating Pathways Centre, which was set up to help girls like Theresa.

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support for the future leaders in Sierra Leone. Thanks to you, more youths and young adults are getting the computer training they need for success in today's technology-driven environment.

There are currently 51 students attending computer training at the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) Computer lab.  The current computer classes at DASL Computer Lab run in three shifts. Shifts run on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, or on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Classes are held from 9:30-11:30am, 12:00pm-2pm, and from 3:00pm to 5:15pm every day.

Thanks to your ongoing support, the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) team held another girls’ mentoring program this past week on the topic of dental hygiene. Twenty-one young ladies between the ages of 10-20 years old in Freetown attended March’s mentoring session.

Your support is greatly appreciated as it continues to make an impact on the future leaders in Sierra Leone. Thanks to your generous support a new hands-free washing station was recently set up at Dantrimark Academy at Waterloo.

The students at Dantrimark Academy at Waterloo were encouraged to use the hands-free washing stations not only during this period of Covid-19 but on an ongoing basis as it helps promote much-needed hygiene in their schools and reduce the spread of germs.

Even though International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8th each year,  GlobalGiving is honoring women all week with 50% matching on all donations through March 12 up to $50. You can make an even greater impact this week on girls' education. Girls today, women in leadership tomorrow!

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