Israel and his family live in single bedroom mud house with no running water and a poor toilet facility. His father is a builder and is the main provider of the home with a monthly income of $80, which is not enough to cover the basic family needs. His mother works as a teacher at a vocational institute and assists her husband in taking care the family needs with a monthly income of $60.

Israel attends a newly established school with limited seating accommodation and little space for the children to play.  Israel wants to follow his father’s footsteps to be a mason.  Sponsorship for Israel offers him the chance to live a better life.

Thank you for meeting Israel’s basic nutritional needs.

Alhaji lives with his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister in single bedroom mud house with no running water and no electricity. His father is a mason and the main provider of the home with a monthly income of $7o, which is not enough to cover the basic family needs. His mother is a petty trader with a small income.  Alhaji enjoys football and mathematics. He wants to be an engineer when he grows up.

Sponsorship for Alhaji will give him the chance to live a better life.  Thank you Whitney for your generous gift to protect Alhaji.

Aminata, Saffie, and Isatu are friends who live in the Wellington Community. They face tough times.  Saffie lost her husband during the Civil War in Sierra Leone in the early ’90s.; she does her best to care and provide for her seven children. Each week she sells vegetables at the market.

Aminata lost her mother when she was three years old.

Isatu lost her father two years ago.

The three are grateful for the bed nets, since malaria is on the rise.  Thank you Julan for assisting these 3 women with their basic needs!

Christiana lives with her mother two sisters and a brother in a two bed room house with no running water and no electricity. Her father is an office assistant and has separated from the rest of the family for over eight years now. Her mother is a petty trader and the main provider of the home with a monthly income of $80, which is not enough to cover the basic family needs.

Christiana enjoys reading, mathematics, literature, and history. Christiana wants to be a lawyer when she grows up. Sponsorship for Christiana will improve her life and give her the chance to be the best she can be.

Thank you Donald for your gift that will help protect Christiana.

Osman lives with his father, mother, four sisters, and two brothers in a two bedroom zinc house with no running water and no electricity. His father is unemployed and unskilled to have a good job that will change the economic condition of the home. His mother is a petty trader and the main provider of the home with monthly income of $60, which is not enough to cover the basic family needs. His family often goes to bed without eating due to lack of money to prepare food for the family.

Osman wants to be a teacher when he grows up. He enjoys football and music. Osman does light errands for people in his community to help the family. Sponsorship for Osman Dumbuya will help change his life.

Thanks for your gift that is protecting Osman.

Bintu lives in her aunt’s home together with several children and relatives of her aunt’s husband. They live in a three bedroom house with no running water but with electricity. At home Bintu does her best to help around the house. She often takes care of her cousin’s baby, and she also goes to the market two miles away from home to sell water.
Bintu’s parents could not support her, so Bintu lives in Freetown, 292 miles from her father, mother, brothers, and sisters. Bintu wants to be a banker when she grows up. Sponsorship for Bintu Lansana will help change her life for the better.

Karen, thank you for your gift to improve Bintu’s life!

Daniela lives with her father and mother, and six dependent relatives in a two bedroom apartment with no running water, and no electricity. Her father is a pastor and the main provider of the home with monthly income of $100, which is not enough to cover the basic family needs and to help the dependent relatives he is housing.

Her mother is a student at one of the universities of Sierra Leone studying accounting. Daniela finds it difficult to cope with the financial challenges her parents are faced with. Daniela walks two miles to church with her mother every Sunday. Daniela likes singing, dancing and reading at her leisure. The rest of the family wake up early to fetch water for domestic uses to avoid the crowd.

Daniela studies at night using a locally-made kerosene lamp, and she sleeps with three of her dependent relatives on a single bed. Daniela wants to be a medical doctor when she grows up. Thanks Jan for your support of Daniela!

Francis lives with his mother, two sisters and brother in a two bedroom apartment with no pipe borne water but with electricity. His father is an office assistant and the main provider of the home with a monthly income of $80 – not enough to cover the basic family needs. This promising boy has known hard times for a very long time now. His father has left the rest of the family to start a new family. His mother is a housewife and is unskilled to have a job. Francis likes playing football and wants to work in the bank when he grows up.

Francis’ new net is a lifesaver; it keeps him safe from mosquitoes, and keeps him dreaming peacefully about his bright future. Thank you, Robert!

Hannah lives with her father, mother, sister and brother in a two bedroom mud house with no running water and no electricity. She lives in the Wellington community, located in Sierra Leone.

Hannah is fourteen years old and in the 5th grade. Most of the time, Hannah helps her mother at the market sell assorted food items at the market. Her father works in construction and is the main provider of the home. He earns a monthly income of $70, which is unfortunately  not enough to cover the family expenses.

Hannah at times does light errands for people in the community to help raise her lunch money. Hannah wants to be a nurse when she grows. Thanks to your donation, Philip, Hannah can live a healthy life!