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Current Projects

New secondary school in Campbell Town

In order to enable a seamless transition from primary school to continuing education, the planning for the construction of a secondary school in Campbell Town is completed and the ...
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Education

Girls Empowerment: Education makes girls strong

This scholarship program supports socially disadvantaged and talented girls for twelve months each through regular meetings, excursions, Skype conferences, further training in IT a ...
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Education

Entrepreneurship: promoting young entrepreneurs in the IT sector

This project aims to kindle the young entrepreneurial spirit and support the promotion of small business owners in the digital field. After a feasibility study we decided to arrang ...
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Young Entrepreneurship

Business Plan Competition for start-ups in IT

3 winning teams that pursue their dream of an IT-start-up to be selected for a 1 year kickstart-program including financial scholarship
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Young Entrepreneurship

Emergency Aid after the fire in Susan's Bay (2021)

Support of CARITAS' food supply for Susan's Bay fire victims
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Emergency Aid

Corona Emergency Aid (2020)

Even before the first Covid 19 case in Sierra Leone was reported, the association launched a first aid package. The main focus was on the distribution of hygiene items and educatio ...
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Emergency Aid

UMC Primary School Campbell Town, Waterloo

Long-term support for particularly needy children through food, clean water, clothing, regular health care, and school supplies.
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Education

Educational partnership of the universities of Makeni and Würzburg

The educational partnership of the universities of Würzburg and Makeni is the extension of the project in support of the Hosetta Abdullah Memorial Special Needs School.
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Education

Access to clean water at St. John of God Hospital, Lunsar

In the country and in cities alike, the water supply in Sierra Leone is often problematic in terms of quality and quantity. With the construction of a borehole and the financing of ...
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WASH

Well Drilling School

Improving access to clean water and empowering young entrepreneurs. In many regions of Sierra Leone, there is no safe and clean drinking water supply. With the help of this project ...
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WASH

Emergency Aid after the fire in Kroo Bay (2019)

Fast and uncomplicated immediate help
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Emergency Aid

Water supplies of the “Don Bosco Mudslide Village”

After the landslide disaster, the association organized rapid relief for the victims of the landslide in order to immediately alleviate the greatest need on site. In a newly built ...
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WASH

Water Supply for the Therapy Centre Don Bosco New Fambul

After the landslide disaster, the association sponsored several follow-up projects to the emergency aid provided. The Don Bosco Fambul therapy center is one of them.
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WASH

Emergency Aid after the Mudslide in Freetown (2017)

After the severe landslide in Freetown in August 2017, the association has provided emergency aid
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Emergency Aid

Ebola Emergency Aid at St. John's of God Catholic Hospital in Lunsar (2014)

After the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic, the association Für Sierra Leone e. V. supported the St. John of God Catholic Hospital in Lunsar.
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Emergency Aid

Aktuelles

Aktuelles

Delegation visit

At the end of March, the board of the association traveled with a group of friends and supporters to Sierra Leone to participate in the opening ceremony of the FSL Secondary School Campbell Town, but also to visit all the other projects and to get an insight into the work on site. The delegation consisted of 10 dedicated friends and supporters who took part in the intensive round trip.

After visiting the office of the association, which is located in the CARITAS Freetown building, a reception for the delegation was organized by the head of CARITAS Freetown, Reverend Fr. Peter Konteh. In his speech he reported about the situation of the country, the work of CARITAS Freetown and also went into new ideas of cooperation between CARITAS Freetown and the association. In an open discussion the points were discussed together. After a city tour of Freetown, the delegation was received at the German Ambassador with a joint dinner. The next day the delegation visited the UMC Primary School in Campbell Town, the well drilling school of EMAS International, which is supported by the association, and Don Bosco International. The opening of the FSL Secondary School Campbell Town was celebrated on the third day. The event included speeches by the German Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Horst Gruner, the Deputy Minister of Education, Mrs. Emily Gogra, and the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Dr. Eldred Taylor. More information on the grand celebrations, which received national attention, can be found here. The visit to St. John of God Hospital in Lunsar on the fourth day was combined with a visit to the beach. On the one hand to provide relaxation, on the other hand to show the great tourism potential of the country. On the penultimate day before departure, an informal conference day was organized for the delegation. The winners of the business plan competition in the field of IT presented their business concepts and plans for their implementation to the delegation. More details about the winning teams and the association's business plan competition can be found here. In the afternoon, the presentations of the scholarship holders of the Girls Empowerment Project were given: Not only the progress in the project was presented, the scholarship holders themselves gave speeches about political and social issues. More information can be found here. The last day was a free day for the delegation.


 

Internship

Thank you for the great interest in our call for applications. We have received many applications from qualified candidates and are now looking for a dedicated intern to support the work of our Country Director in Sierra Leone for 3-4 months only for spring 2023.

Here you can find the current announcement

The country Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

The West African country of Sierra Leone has had suffered from the bloody diamond war in the 1990s, and from the Ebola epidemic. Since then, things are slowly looking up and people are regaining hope.

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Partners

Don Bosco
Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
NGO Network Sierra Leone
Orthopedics for the third world / GLOBOLAB e.V.