Building Communities in
Sierra Leone
We partnered with the district of Pujehun to bring universal access to healthcare for the most vulnerable and rural communities of the country.
We have so far built two health campuses, providing treatment to over 30,000 people and having provided services to deliver 700 healthy babies.
Our goal is to give each community the tools they need to thrive. Schools will be built alongside our health campuses to ensure villagers have the knowledge they need to make the best decisions for their future.
EMPOWER Salone
Join the initiative of building Five Schools in Five Years with Empower Salone
Our goal is to build new, well-equipped school facilities in five underprivileged communities in Sierra Leone's most rural district. With your support, we can construct beautiful schools that include washrooms, solar electricity, clean water, furniture, playgrounds, and sports fields for $50,000 each.
Our on-ground partner, Thaakat Foundation, will work with us to build one new school facility in each community every year to maximize their potential for growth and reduce healthcare and education inequalities. Additionally, Thaakat will launch new health facilities adjacent to our schools.
Together, we can inspire the complete transformation of almost half a dozen communities through quality education and healthcare in Sierra Leone.
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Latest health campus launched in 2021
“There’s a swelling optimism that the new Thaakat Foundation health facilities will change the dynamics of Maternal and Child health and general healthcare service delivery in the community and beyond.
We saw inspired nurses radiating feelings of joy and determination to work and do what they do best; save lives.
We saw lactating mothers and pregnant women now exuding new found confidence and hope in the healthcare system.
We saw kids and patients beaming with smiles while happily posing for pictures, eager to share their stories.”
Tejan Kabia
Sierra Leone Field Team
Healthcare Without Borders
STD
Prevention
Teen Pregnancy Support
Malnutrition Treatment
Child Immunization
Ensuring sanitation & disease reduction
We are working to reduce the instances of mosquito-borne malaria.
Malaria is the single largest cause of illness in Pujehun, Sierra Leone. At any given time, more than half of the population in our served communities will test positive.
Every year, we implement several rounds of malaria education and prevention in the communities we work in. From rapid testing to concierge on site treatment and insecticide spraying–we hope our services help to curb the burden of this terrible disease.
World's Deadliest AnimalsNumber of People Killed by Animals per Year
725,000
Mosquito
50,000
Snake
10,000
Tse Tse Fly
10,000
Assassin Bug
25,000
Dog
1,000
Crocodile
2,500
Ascaris Roundworm
2,000
Tapeworm
500
Hippo
SOURCES: WHO; crocodile-attack.info; Kasturiratne et al (doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050218); FAO (webcitation.org/6OgpS8SVO); Linnell et al. (webcitation.org/6ORL7DBUO); Packer et al. (doi.org/10.1038%2F436927a); Alessandro De Maddilena. All calculations have wide error margins.
We create Community Solutions
Patients Treated
Maternal and Child Health Care Centers Built
Public Bathrooms Constructed
Healthy Babies Delivered
Supplementary programs in action:
Little Promises Program
Decreasing maternal fatalities
Sierra Leone’s maternal mortality rates are the highest in the world and a third of all infants do not live to see the age of five. Our goal is to increase child and maternal survival rates by providing free and quality access to healthcare.
Stop the Bug Program
Reducing Malaria Transmission
As we review monthly statistics and challenges at our center, we continue to see spiking malaria rates. We work to interrupt malaria transmission by depleting mosquito breeding grounds and encouraging good sanitation and self-protection.
