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Monday, October 14, 2024

SLANGO Honors World Vision at 1st Annual Dinner and Awards Night 2024

This story is about World Vision International Sierra Leone receiving awards from the Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (SLANGO) for its outstanding contributions in the areas of education and gender, social welfare and inclusion.

World Vision Sierra Leone restructuring: Staff orientation

World Vision Sierra Leone assembled its staff for orientation following rigorous recruitment in the LEAP 3 restructuring process. For the first time ever...

When resources mobilisation means saving lives in Sierra Leone

The GAM Unit contributes to change the lives of 500 households affected by devastating floods and landslide in Freetown Heavy rainfall led to devastating...

‘’My children are back to school’’

Fulamusu had an energetic husband who unreservedly shouldered the responsibility of his family until his demise. Fulamusu’s husband died of Ebola in his...

‘I thought I was going to die and leave my child behind’

‘’Very heavy bulky mud landed on my chest. I was buried to the neck in mud. I lost hope of survival. I thought I was going to die and leave my child who...

Savings Group boost rural women and children

Before the establishment of Savings Group (SG) in Bendu community in Jaiama Bongor, Bo District popular uniformed voice from community members have it that...

''How was life going to be like for my unborn child?''

When the deadly flood and mudslide hit Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown in August, Kadiatu Sesay, 22, had the future of not one, but two people to worry...

‘My baby was really exposed to cold and mosquitoes’

Twenty-three-year-old Aminata Kamara and her five-month-old son, Moses, have nowhere to call home. They were residents of the community of Gbangbayilla...

Help in the midst of a crisis

Eleven-year-old Santigie and his nine-year-old sister, Samma, will never feel the warmth of a mother and father, again. Flashfloods and mudslide deprived...

'I and my children will no longer sleep on bare floor'

Twenty-nine-year-old Gifty lost her mum to the flood and lost her property. Her five-month old baby, Mary, caught some severe cold due to extreme exposure...

Orphaned but not forgotten

The twin-disaster disfigured many corpses before they could be exhumed. Hundreds of people—including Esther have not set eyes on corpses of their loved...

World Vision and its partners unite women for a uniform goal

Women’s participation in politics and the quest to be leaders has been very low. In the Sierra Leonean context, male chauvinism is at play especially in...

First children’s savings group champions child protection cause

Destiny Children’s Savings Group (DCSG) is a record breaker in Sierra Leone’s long- history—for the first time in Sierra Leone, children are owning and...

Women Empowered for Leadership and Development (WELD Project): children impacted through economic empowerment

Fatmata and her siblings live with hunger and starvation constantly invading their lives. Fatmata was always hungry, tired and losing concentration in...

Regional Leader visits post-Ebola Sierra Leone

Esther Lehman-Sow, World Vision’s Regional Leader West African Region (WAR), was on a three-day visit to World Vision Sierra Leone. As part of her visit...

Mamaneiva Project: ‘’a blessing to us’’

Katta Gboya, 22, is an indigene of Torma section in Bum Chiefdom, Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone. She believes the Grandmother Inclusive Approach...

Emergency Food Security Programme (EFSP): providing food assistance to hunger-stricking communities in Sierra Leone

Ebola may be gone, but its visible relics are still hanging there and felt in Sierra Leone. The country is coping with the painful reality of shattered...

Empowering communities through Savings Groups

Kweyadondor is among the 688 Savings Groups monitored within World Vision's Area Dvelopment Programmes (ADPs) and Special Project sites in Sierra Leone...

No longer a punching bag

Isatu Barrie is a 42-year-old woman who lives in Bongema village, Jaiama Nimikoro, Chiefdom in the Kono district, Eastern Sierra Leone. She is happy and...

WELD holds third year planning meeting

The Women Empowered for Livelihoods and Development (WELD) Project have held their third year implementation planning sessions in Makeni from 11-15 October...

World Vision leads consortium to construct 225 classrooms for Sierra Leonean pupils

World Vision is leading a consortium of three Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)—Street Child Catholic Relief Services and World Vision being the prime...

Esther's school escapes disgrace

Twelve-year-old Esther, a grade six pupil of Madonna Primary School in Bo, southern Sierra Leone is now happy in school. Her school is one of the...

Newly appointed National Director for World Vision Sierra Leone registers passion for performance, accountability and integrity

The newly appointed substantive National Director for World Vision Sierra Leone, James Chifwelu, on Monday 3 October 2016 assumed duties and registered his...

WORLD VISION SIERRA LEONE'S ANNUAL DAY OF PRAYER IN GALLERY

This Fiscal Year (FY 17) Annual DOP was themed , “…for every child, life in all its fullness”. John 10:10 (NIV) Inspired by the theme and scripture...

Ebola’s scars live on

Like many other girls her age in Sierra Leone, Mabinty*, has felt the effects of Ebola. The promising 12-year-old girl is currently living with one of her...