Family Care managers visit CRC students in Freetown

Most of the students enrolled in Child Rescue Centre programs live in and around Bo, where the CRC headquarters and facility is located.  However, the CRC now supports students in Freetown, Makeni, Kenema, Fengehun and other places. Recently, CRC staff who manage the Family Care Program traveled to Freetown to conduct home and school visits with the CRC students living with their families there.

Many people have the misconception that the Child Rescue Centre is a place located in Bo, Sierra Leone, where children live.  In fact, the residential program of the CRC is the smallest of all CRC programs, making up just 3% of the total number of students who are supported by the CRC.  The majority of the CRC students live with their own or foster families, and receive financial and medical support that allows them to enjoy growing up within a family and community, while also providing them with access to education and medical care that would otherwise be out of reach.