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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 labour 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...

Soap Making for Resilience

by World Hope International | Jul 16, 2020 | Combating Infectious Diseases, Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Global Health, Protection, Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment

Soap Making for Resilience Join us today to celebrating World Youth Skills Day! This day is set aside on the United Nations Calendar as a day to pause and reflect on the world’s youth, the skills they possess, and the work being done around the world to help...

Ending Child Rape in Sierra Leone

by World Hope International | Jul 9, 2020 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection, Sierra Leone

Ending Child Rape in Sierra Leone By Haley Clark and Heather Hill Last month, a five-year-old girl in Sierra Leone died after being brutally raped. Why has this happened yet again, and what will it take to finally end the epidemic of rape in the country? “This...