Objectives for 2026:
(2025 objectives appear in brackets)
- We will pay all the educational costs for 90 (85) high achievers in primary schools from poor homes who would otherwise be unable to succeed in secondary school.
- We will provide mobility equipment for 40 (35) disabled children and young people so that they can get to school and around their villages without crawling or being carried.
- We will support care and training costs at Mustard Seed children’s home in Moyamba so that 15 (10) severely disabled children get the support they need.
- We will pay for 6 (4) blind children and 3 (3) deaf children to get the benefit of residential education including, for the blind children, learning to read braille.
- We will support 80 (70) students in the final two years at Kroo primary school. This school serves the most deprived neighbourhood in Freetown.
- We will support 20 (13) of our successful secondary school ‘graduates’ so that they can go on to university or vocational training college.
- We will support 10 (10) disabled children to whom we have given mobility equipment so that they can go to school.
- We will provide solar lamps for evening study to all our sponsored students and to teachers and top-class children in several primary schools.
- We will introduce a range of support measures to reduce the risk of our sponsored school students becoming pregnant (new objective).
- We will empower our volunteer team by providing training and giving volunteers the opportunity to influence our priorities and shape our work.
- We will do all this with your donations of about £60,000 (£45,000).
Our Vision Statement:
We envisage a society in which the children and young people of Sierra Leone have overcome the barriers to their education and advancement in life
Our Mission Statement:
We will 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
Sierra Leone Charity / Education Charity
Founded in 2012, we are a UK education charity giving high ability children from poor homes in Sierra Leone the chance to go to secondary school.
The Sierra Leone education system throws up many barriers for poor children so we provide a sponsorship package that includes school uniform, a complete set of textbooks, extra lessons before exams and a solar light for homework.
We also search for disabled children in remote villages and provide them with mobility equipment so that they can access Sierra Leone education. We also work closely with a Sierra Leone charity which provides a children’s home for abandoned children and fund two care workers who train and support the most disabled children.
All our work is done by volunteers in Sierra Leone and the UK. We employ no paid staff, have no offices and own no vehicles. Almost every donated pound goes directly to improving the life of a child in Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries on earth. This year with donations totalling about £40,000 we will help around 220 children.
