Sierra Leone is a West African country with a population of just over 7 Million people, with over 52% of this population living below the poverty line according to the UN Human Development Index. The Civil war that lasted over a decade from 1991 to 2002, the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and the 2017 mudslide adversely impacted homelessness in Sierra Leone, by increasing the number of people and families without homes.

 

More interestingly, the invasion of rebels in 1999 led to the destruction of 5,932 houses in Freetown, Kissy, Wellington, Calaba Town and Allen Town. These unpleasant occurrences have a direct influence on the high rates of unemployment, poverty, hunger, sudden deaths and other issues the nation is faced with today that hampers development. Sadly, most homeless people are poor, unemployed, unskilled and go hungry for days without any certainty to have food any time soon. Some are forced to become street beggars, prostitutes and thieves due to extreme poverty and hunger.

 

 

Sierra Leone being one of the four countries earmarked this year for meaningful transformation, ZION A HAPPY HOME FOUNDATION is determined to significantly reduce hunger in the west African nation with our Four phased novel project - the Feeding of street children, orphans, adults, the homeless, the mentally deranged, the physically disabled, prisoners, juvenile deliquent and the impoverished. Using the first phase of this project as a means of identifying the target population we need to empower, food and soft drinks was distributed to a good number of homeless people in the streets and environs of Freetown. Support us take sustainable actions aimed at absorbing off the streets these homeless people and equipping them with livelihood skills, education, medical and psychosocial support to guarantee them much better lives than before.