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Education is the key
to a better society, a better country, and a better world.
Introduction
Introduction
The founding of A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity - Sierra Leone (AW.I.S.H.-SL), based in Kenema city, is rooted in the aftermath of a decade-long rebel war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. The negative consequences of the war had short- and long-term impacts on communities countrywide and specifically on women, girls, youth, and children. Through educational campaigns and events sponsored by the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone at the Human Rights Development Centre in Freetown, AW.I.S.H.–SL members and staff made meaningful contributions to peace-building in post-war Sierra Leone.
Since 2014, AW.I.S.H.-SL in partnership with Peace Child International (PCI), a UK-based NGO, has focused on addressing the major challenges disadvantaged young people face in securing employment that allows them to escape poverty. To this end, the charity has focused predominantly on youth-led projects that improve the livelihoods of young people through formal education, employability, and entrepreneurial training.
Our Projects
Sierra International Academy
Sierra International Academy
SIA provides rigorous and substantial educational opportunities to students from 3 years to 18 years of age. We currently hire 31 teachers for four sectors: Pre-Primary, Primary, Junior Secondary, and Senior Secondary. Our students’ academic records are impeccable: all of our students passed the National Primary School Examination and Basic Education and Certificate Examination this past academic year. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic increased financial stressors, SIA has continued to instruct over 750 students.
In the Academic Year 2020/2021, the Ministry of Education approved and began providing Government Financial Assistance to help operate Sierra International Senior Secondary School.
Check out our website. https://www.sierrainternationalacademy.com/
Be The Change Academy
Be The Change Academy
Through a partnership with Peace Child International (PCI), this project has been specifically designed, in collaboration with illiterate young women to improve their life chances and help them develop the skills and confidence they need to be part of and contribute to, the local economy and wider community.
Agribusiness & Development
Agribusiness & Development
Starting in 2008, AW.I.S.H.-SL moved ahead to invest and empower smallholder producers. Selected women and youth groups received start-up resources to grow and produce cassava in six communities in Korjei Ngieya Section in Lower Bambara Chiefdom, Kenema District.
AW.I.S.H.–SL serves as the coordinating agency between community farmers, volunteers and other agricultural-based organizations to improve and strengthen the physical and economic access to nutritious food.
“Putting earnings in women’s hands is the intelligent thing to do to speed up development and the process of overcoming hunger and poverty in the community. Kamboma women usually reinvest a much higher portion in their families and community than men, spreading wealth beyond themselves.”
— AW.I.S.H.-SL Director, Alpha Beretay
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