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Celebrating Families & Bright Futures

by World Hope International | May 13, 2021 | Access to Education, Child Sponsorship, Protection, Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment

Celebrating Families & Bright Futures On May 15th, the world celebrates the International Day of Families, a day established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. It was intended that The International Day of Families would create an opportunity to...

Celebrating World Autism Awareness Day with ETC

by World Hope International | Apr 1, 2021 | Child & Maternal Health, Child Sponsorship, Enable the Children, Global Health, Healthcare Accessibility, Protection, Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment

Celebrating World Autism Awareness Day with ETC On April 2nd, 2021, the world will celebrate the 14th annual World Autism Awareness Day—a day unanimously established by the UN to highlight the need to help improve the quality of life of those with autism spectrum...

International Women’s Day: Elevating Women’s Voices in Sierra Leone

by World Hope International | Mar 5, 2021 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection, Sierra Leone

International Women’s Day: Elevating Women’s Voices in Sierra Leone World Hope International is staffed and led by an incredible team of passionate professionals around the world. Meet Bintu, WHI’s Gender Empowerment Field Officer who has made it her...

Equipped for Entrepreneurship

by World Hope International | Feb 5, 2021 | Access to Education, Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection, Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment

Equipped for Entrepreneurship Last year, 45 adolescent girls from 10 villages in Sierra Leone were selected for a special soap making & selling training program implemented by World Hope International and funded by the IFC. The girls acquired basic business skills...

Human Trafficking: Exploited Hope

by World Hope International | Jan 11, 2021 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection, Sierra Leone

Human Trafficking: Exploited Hope The search for opportunity, for the chance to make a good living, is something most people can relate to. Unfortunately, as often as people find good jobs and opportunities, this search—especially when it includes labor migration—can...

Saidu Kanu Honored in Freetown

by World Hope International | Dec 18, 2020 | General, Sierra Leone

Saidu Kanu Honored in Freetown Country Director for World Hope International Sierra Leone, Saidu Kanu, was honoured as one of the 100 Most Outstanding Sierra Leoneans at the 2020 Sierra Ovation Awards Ceremony in Freetown on earlier this month. “This is in recognition...