Our Achievements 2024 / 2023 Accounts

Our approach

We work in Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries. Our vision is a society in which the children and young people of Sierra Leone have overcome the barriers to their education and advancement in life. Through our work, we hope to contribute to the development of Sierra Leone by empowering children and young people to achieve their full potential through access to and support for education.

We are a small charity. We employ no paid staff, have no office and own no vehicles. Our UK-based trustees claim no travel expenses. Our Sierra Leone-based trustees and volunteers receive modest travel expenses but no fees or salaries. We keep running costs to an absolute minimum; even this report is printed for us by a donor and our postage costs are met by another donor.

We cannot abolish poverty in Sierra Leone. But we have brought education, dignity and the hope of a better future to over 200 children and young

people in the last 12 months.

Our Objectives in 2024

We set ourselves the following objectives which we have met or will exceed:

• To pay all the educational costs for 75 high achievers in primary schools from poor homes who would otherwise be unable to succeed in secondary school.
• To provide mobility equipment for 35 disabled children and young people so that they can get to school and around their villages without crawling or being carried. We treat prosthetic legs as mobility equipment.
• To support care and training costs at Mustard Seed children’s home in Moyamba so that 10 severely disabled children get the support they need.
• To pay for 2 blind children and 2 deaf children to get the benefit of residential education including, for the blind children, learning to read braille.
• To support 70 students in the final two years at Kroo primary school. This school serves the most deprived neighbourhood in Freetown.
• To support 9 of our successful secondary school ‘graduates’ so that they can go on to university or vocational training college.

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