The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals number 4 and 10 advocate for Quality Education for all and Reduced Inequalities worldwide.

According to Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL), October 2017 publication with the assistance of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Sierra Leone 2015 Population and housing census, Thematic Report on Education and Literacy states that Sierra Leone has a national illiteracy rate of 48.1%. Out of this 48.1% rural areas record the highest rates of 62.2 % while urban areas 29.8%.

 

In Sierra Leone just like in Cameroon, this project was launched on the same day Saturday the 4th of September 2021, bringing together a large number of children of school-going age who have been deprived of access to quality education at the Zion A Happy Home Foundation Free Vocational Training Centre Hall at Kaningo, Juba. This underserved category, characterized by war and mudslide surviving children, flood survivors, Ebola and Coronavirus survivors, rape victims, children who suffered amputation, children of impoverished amputee parents as well as orphans, street children and other special needs youths, made this 2nd edition of our back to school scheme for the underprivileged in Sierra leone a unique life empowering activity.

 

 

The one-of-its-kind event was intended to prioritize and enable access to quality education for these under-resourced children.

Gifts donated to them comprised exercise books, ledgers, school bags, water bottles, umbrellas, school shoes, pens, pencils, erasers, rulers, sharpeners, math sets, nose masks, kind words of motivation and encouragement as well as pledges to support them more in the future. The expressions of happiness via shouts of joy hand clapping and singing could tell it all what this gesture of goodwill meant to these disadvantaged young ones and their families.

 

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