Sierra Leone
Young people have the power to solve the world's biggest challenges.
We support hundreds of young volunteers to partner with communities across every district of Sierra Leone to lead on education, end child marriage and improve financial inclusion among women. Together, we have reached 92, 400 young people with our work.
Featured projects
IMPROVING FINANCIAL INCLUSION FOR WOMEN LIVING IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS
By 2023, 5,500 Women Living in 37 Informal Settlements (WLIIS) will have access to appropriate, useful, gender-sensitive, and inclusive financial products and services, resulting in WLIIS having increased financial resilience and independence to make choices. The WLIIS project is implemented by Centre of Dialogue on Human Settlement and Poverty Alleviation (CODOHSAPA) and Federation for Urban …
Positive Parenting Education Program
Creating and Expanding Opportunities for the Empower of Adolescent Girls and Boys Through Gender-Transformative Engagement. Restless Development Sierra Leone is implementing an integrated package of interventions that is empowering communities, parents, caregivers and adolescent girls in shifting behaviors, social norms and practices supporting child marriage. The package comprises of the roll-out of the positive parenting …
MICHAEL AND PETER’S STORY
As young people, we have the mandate to learn and implement more skills in order to effectuate change in our communities.
Peter George, Founder, Ideal Technologies.