Why partner with a village in Sierra Leone?
Village Partnership is an initiative to help villages in Sierra Leone overcome the entrenched obstacles of extreme poverty, illiteracy and endemic disease. Since 2010, Mercy Hospital has provided medical outreach to a network of villages surrounding Bo. In 2018, the Child Reintegration Centre extended enrollment to reach these villages, so that more children can go to school and receive case management services. Helping Children Worldwide is expanding services to the villages we already serve, with a three year plan to provide family empowerment programs, micro-finance training, sanitation, clean water sources, school development, and improved infrastructure. Read our most recent success story here: Fengehun Village Partnership provides community with clean water and sanitation.
48% of village residents do not have access to safe drinking water.
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Sustainability happens when the people with the problems own the solutions. Village Partnership encourages local control and ownership of issues faced by families. Building stronger families and communities encourages self sufficiency, instead of dependency. Through community mapping surveys to solicit information from the village residents and leadership, the CRC and Mercy are determining which improvements are most needed and will be the most effective in lifting the community out of poverty.
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25% of school-aged children living in villages do not attend school.
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How you can help: Churches, families, individuals, and organizations are invited to join our Village Partnership initiative with a three year commitment to support a village served by the CRC and Mercy Hospital. You also have the option to fund a specific village improvement project such as a deep bore well, sanitation system, health clinic, school improvement, or other improvement requested by residents and leadership. Your tax deductible contributions support the improvements to a village that are specifically identified through community mapping. Click on the green button below to see the village sponsorship options. You can set up a recurring donation on our website or mail a check to HCW. We will send you a packet of information about the village you are supporting. We will also send periodic updates about the village and progress reports about the project you are supporting.
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If you are interested in the Village Improvement Project, Village Enterprise Project, or Village Impact Partnership, please contact Mission Project Specialist Yasmine Vaughan at yasmine@helpingchildrenworldwide.org
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Mission |
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To embark on a short-term investment program by forming a committed partnership with an impoverished community that encourages local control and ownership of issues faced in the village, focuses on strengthening families and communities, and encourages self-sufficiency instead of dependency in the long term.
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Develop an intervention that begins and ends with community ownership, giving children and families the tools to invest in their own community to overcome the obstacles of extreme poverty, illiteracy, and endemic disease.
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Within 7 years, the community will have a problem management system supported by an income stream that enables a community to be self-sustaining and provide for the health and human service needs of the community.
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Over three years, the Village Partnership will provide resources for collaborative programming in medical services, family empowerment programs, sanitation, clean water sources, school development, improved infrastructure, and enterprise management and community leadership training. Simultaneously, the community will develop an enterprise project that generates the income necessary to sustain these ongoing health and human service needs of the community.
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VILLAGE SPONSORSHIP
The Village Enterprise Project is a cooperative business venture to help families become self-sufficient and generate funds to maintain community improvements. Some possibilities for the VEP are the establishment of a coffee growing concern, farming operation, small scale manufacturing. or craft enterprise.
VILLAGE IMPACT - $70,000 - $90,000
Commit to fund the entire 3 year village improvement initiative. This is potentially a project for a church or partnership of churches to undertake. Please contact HCW for more specific information about this initiative.
- Village Sponsor - $35/month ($420 annually)
- Village Partner - $200 month ($2400 annually)
- Deep bore well for clean water supply (approximately $5,000)
- Increased medical access for all residents (approximately $3,500)
- Public latrines for improved sanitation and health (approximately $6,000)
- School books, backpacks, desks, and blackboards (approximately $1,000)
The Village Enterprise Project is a cooperative business venture to help families become self-sufficient and generate funds to maintain community improvements. Some possibilities for the VEP are the establishment of a coffee growing concern, farming operation, small scale manufacturing. or craft enterprise.
VILLAGE IMPACT - $70,000 - $90,000
Commit to fund the entire 3 year village improvement initiative. This is potentially a project for a church or partnership of churches to undertake. Please contact HCW for more specific information about this initiative.
