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.

1,447 young volunteers across all districts of Sierra Leone
1,019 communities currently working with us as partners in development

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 empowerment of adolescent girls and boys through gender-transformative engagement.

Financial Inclusion for Women Living in Informal Settlement.

The initiative, called “WILLIS,” aims to empower women to promote economic growth in their communities while supporting them to advocate for improved financial services and policies in a sustainable and impactful way. From the inception of the programme till date, 148 female volunteers have been providing basic literacy and numeracy skills, book keeping, and accurate …

UPSHIFT

UPSHIFT empowers young people to identify challenges in their communities and create entrepreneurial solutions to address them.

Strengthening Accountability, Building Inclusion

Supporting young people to collect data and drive community-centred change.

Fighting Corruption and Increasing Accountability

Improving Sierra Leone's ability to raise, allocate and account for the use of public funds so that they can be invested in services such as education health and economic growth.

Leave No Girl Behind

Ensuring the most vulnerable girls across Sierra Leone can access the opportunities they deserve.

Mama by choice, not by chance

Supporting young women to raise awareness of the benefits of contraception with teenage girls.

Unite for Save Lives Nar Salone

Ensuring high quality healthcare is available so that children have the best start in life.

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.

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Members of Youth CBOs. Sierra Leone With funds from People's Postcode Education Trust, Restless Development Sierra Leone supported 12 youth CBOs to implement Educational projects that will solve problems around education in their communities and districts.
Maide4u Youth CBO. Sierra Leone Harnessing opportunities for out-of-school adolescent girls in slum communities.
Hawa Bintu Dauda, Financial Inclusion project volunteer. Sierra Leone “As a volunteer, I feel very happy working with women in informal settlement.”

THIS IS US

Celebrating International Day of the Girl Child in Bombali. Sierra Leone Restless Development joined the Ministry of Gender and other partners to celebrate International Day of the Gi rl Child.
Haja Mariama Bangura, Sierra Leone “Working with Restless Development as a Grant Recipient of the Catalyzing project as a young person gave me a platform to do the work I am most passionate about empowering girls. It gave me the opportunity to fully establish a pad production factory and a training platform for girls”.
Youth Collective Members, with Hub Director , Head of Programmes and Partnership, & CYLER project coordinator.. Sierra Leone Restless Development Sierra Leone recruited 10 youth collective members that supported the Catalyzing Youth Leadership for Education Reform project implementation.

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