Your support is helping future leaders, like Franklyn, get their education. Franklyn received an iPad to help him with school work.

Franklyn expresses his gratitude for the support he recently received in this video

COVID-19 is having a crippling effect on the economy in Sierra Leone.  During these challenging times, your generosity is so greatly appreciated. Thanks to your support, multiple families were given food including a bag of rice, one gallon of cooking oil, and a bag of onions.    

One of the families that received food support expressed their gratitude saying 

Thank you Develop Africa for supporting us with food items during this hard time.

October 16th is World Food Day, which focuses on the second sustainable development goal- Zero Hunger.

The majority of the world’s undernourished –more than 250 million live in Africa, where the number of undernourished is growing faster than anywhere in the world. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/hunger/

Thank YOU for helping to pave the way to a brighter and better future for young ladies in Sierra Leone. On October 11th we celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child.

 This is a day that we are all passionate about.  International Day of the Girl Child promotes girls' empowerment and fulfillment of their human rights.

Thanks to your ongoing support of future leaders’ education, 29 students in Bo, Sierra Leone received financial support to pay for their school fees and school supplies for the 2021-2022 school year.   The students receiving school support ranged from Nursery school all the way through Senior Secondary school.

On August 30th the Develop Africa Sierra Leone Computer Lab received twenty-one new computers for the lab.  Twenty computers are for the students and one of the new computers is for the teacher.  This would not have been possible without generous supporters like you!

Students in Freetown are looking forward to starting school this year because you helped cover their school fees making school possible for 86 students. Of those 86 students 46 were primary school students (nursery school through class 6) and 40 of those students were in secondary school (Junior Secondary school through Senior Secondary School 3).

These 86 students also each received a book bag containing notebooks,  erasers, pens & pencils, crayons, a ruler, an umbrella, and a pencil sharpener. 

Computer networking and hardware courses are becoming increasingly popular in universities, polytechnical institutions, postsecondary colleges, and private training institutions worldwide because of the high demand for people with computer networking and hardware skills. The DASL Computer Lab is now offering a computer hardware & networking course. The learning-by-doing approach is an essential component in courses on computer networking and hardware fundamentals.

Thanks in part to your support, Sahr, a talented artist in Freetown received quality paint and paintbrushes.   Sahr is full of potential and loves to paint on canvas, however, good quality paint and paintbrushes are scarce to non-existent for purchase in Sierra Leone.

Sahr was delighted to receive the paint and paintbrushes. The photo below shows the canvas painting that he is working on using the paint and brushes that you helped provide. In this video, he sends a word of appreciation to you.

Thanks in part to your ongoing support, the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) team along with African Girls Code launched an eight-week pilot program to provide free coding. 

The purpose was to introduce African girls to the male-dominated world of programming and encourage young women to pursue a future in computer science and other STEM-related fields.

31 secondary school-aged girls in Freetown, Sierra Leone participated in the pilot program. 

The goals for this pilot launch were to: