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Sierra Leone
Reviving primary schools
Project
Children in Crisis are running a 3 year programme in Kambia, Sierra Leone which will ultimately aim to encourage children to stay in primary school, get better exam results and enrol into junior secondary school. Violence against girls and teenage pregnancy should be reduced and early marriage delayed. Children, especially girls will be more more capable of protecting themselves from abuse,... Read more
Cost-effective Education
Project
A 20 month project designed to identify and address the barriers to children’s education in rural Sierra Leone. Working in three of the most remote rural communities in Kambia we will be running various community engagement activities designed to identify and address the factors which stop children completing a primary education. We will do this by: holding adult literacy circles,... Read more
Disability Survey
Project
In 2011 Children in Crisis launched a survey to explore and document the alarming truth about children with disabilities in Sierra Leone. Instances of children being hidden away, abused and denied their basic human rights have been reported although the full extent is not known. What we do know is that there are a significant number of children with disabilities and access to education for them... Read more
Past Project - HIV & AIDS Education
Project
HIV is a compulsory subject in the primary school curriculum of Sierra Leone, however teachers are often ill-prepared to teach about HIV in the classroom; they have not been trained and lack the confidence to teach the lessons, therefore all too often HIV is not taught about at all. Sierra Leone's Community of Change: project update A Successful End Working with our local partners FAWE ... Read more
Sierra Leone - Kambia
Sierra Leone - Kambia Project Update
News
In January 2012 Children in Crisis began a new project in Kambia, Sierra Leone, predominantly funded by DFID. Our Programme Manager Becky Midlane has just returned from the brand new office in Kambia where she was spending time with the Children in Crisis and FAWE staff who make up the team, getting ready for the onset of the more in-depth part of the project. Part of Becky's work was... Read more
A new project in Sierra Leone
A new project in Sierra Leone
News
In 2011 we spent some time reviewing our work in Sierra Leone. As a result of this review we now have an exciting new project which started in January 2012 and have successfully secured part of the funding needed for the project from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Combining our learning from the HIV project that we ran until early 2011 with the recent strategic review,... Read more
Sierra Leone - Our Disability Survey is Completed
News
A joint project between Powerful Information, Vision for the Blind and Children in Crisis has just been completed. We have been gathering data of the numbers of children with disabilities (CWD) in selected chiefdoms in the Kambia District of Sierra Leone. We also wanted to understand something of the quality of their lives and the barriers that prevent them from getting an education. There are... Read more
Sierra Leone's Community of Change
News
The “Big Society” is a concept that remote communities are already very familiar with in Sierra Leone. Here, local women use newly acquired knowledge to make an even wider impact in their local community. "Whoever tells you to have sex, report the matter" Class 5 girl, K.D.E.C. Primary School, Dare-Salam Kambia Central A recent evaluation of our HIV/AIDS project in Sierra... Read more
Children in Crisis, Vision for the Blind, Disability, Disabled, Blind, deaf,
Sierra Leone's Hidden Children
News
This year, Children in Crisis launched a survey to explore and document the alarming truth about children with disabilities in Sierra Leone. Instances of children being hidden away, abused and denied their basic human rights have been reported although the full extent is not known. What we do know is that there are a significant number of children with disabilities and access to education for... Read more