Your support is helping young ladies like Agnes, get their education.  Agnes received school supplies, protective masks, and all her school fees for this year thanks in part to YOU.  

Agnes is so thankful for your generous support that is making it possible for her to attend her first year of Senior Secondary School. Agnes hopes to become a banker when she grows up so she can help improve the economy.  She expresses her gratitude in this video- 

Roseline has been receiving support for her education for 10 years thanks to YOU.  She tells us in her video about her future dreams thanks to the educational support you have provided her.

Hi, my name is Roseline. I live in Freetown, Sierra Leone.  I've been part of the Develop Africa Sponsorship program for the past 10 years since I was in grade 4. I've completed high school and am ready to enter the University.

Your generous support is continuing to provide microfinance loans even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your support is helping small businesses, like Olivette's, during these challenging times.

Hope you are doing well and taking care of yourselves during these volatile times.

As a team, in the spirit of continuous improvement, we regularly review progress, monitor, and evaluate the services that we are providing.  This is done from several perspectives or angles.

So today, we share with you a summary of course evaluations by computer trainees at the Juba Hill computer lab.  Here are some highlights:

Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated as it continues to make an impact on the future leaders in Sierra Leone.  Ibrahim is one of the students that recently received school fees and school supplies and he wrote a letter of appreciation saying-

Your support is helping young ladies like Samuella, get their education.  Samuella received school supplies, protective masks, and all her school fees for this year thanks in part to your generous support.  

Samuella is so thankful for your generous support that is making school possible for her this year. She is in her third year of junior secondary school or JSS3. Her favorite subject is English and she enjoys watching movies when she has time.  Her dream is to become a lawyer and fight for justice for the less fortunate people.

Kadiatu is in year 2 of Junior High School. She dreams of becoming a nurse in the future, she has a heart full of compassion and loves taking care of sick people. 

She had to stop going to school this year because she had an unplanned pregnancy – a baby boy. She thankfully has recently returned to school and excitedly making progress.

Your support helped to ship the school supplies that she received. Thank you so much for bringing light and hope.

Sunday, October 11, 2020, is the International Day of the Girl Child.  UNICEF's annual campaign is “My voice, our equal future” for 2020.

As adolescent girls worldwide assert their power as change-makers, International Day of the Girl 2020 focuses on their demands to: 

25 drums full of school supplies have arrived in Sierra Leone. Distributions to multiple schools and students will take place over the next couple of weeks. 

Your generosity is helping future leaders in Sierra Leone get the school supplies they need to get their education.

Today we wanted to share with you a heart-warming update on Thomasia.

We are overwhelmed to see how far Thomasia has come.  

2010: When I met her over 10 years ago, she was a little girl.  You can see a thank you video from her that was uploaded to youtube in 2010 - 10 years ago