For $70/Year We Can Send a Sierra Leonean GIRL to High School

SLVP is pleased to sponsor Project GLOW. Project GLOW (Granting Learning Opportunities for Women) is a fundraising effort, initiated by high school senior Sadie Pelini, to raise scholarships for senior secondary school girls (grades 10 -12) in Gbendembu. Sadie is a student at South High in Minneapolis with an interest in Africa and and passion for journalism. She and board member Mary Jane Lavin are planning a three week trip to Sierra Leone in March/April 2013.

The cost of school fees, uniforms, and books to send a village girl in Sierra Leone to high school for one year is $70. Project GLOW has a goal of raising $7000, the equivalent of 100 scholarships. If you would like to contribute to this fund, please include PROJECT GLOW on the memo line of your check made out to SLVP, or on the description line of the order summary if donating via PayPAL. 

Sierra Leone…

Ranked 180 out of 187 in the UN Development Index, below Afghanistan, Sudan and Haiti…For more information visit the Learn More about Sierra Leone page.

Has a literacy rate between 34-24%.

Can provide less than 25% of the population with access to clean drinking water.

Has the 6th worst maternal mortality rate in the world, for every 100,000 babies born per year, 970 mothers die.

Is where the average child entering school will only get 7.2 years of an education.

Sierra Leone was destroyed by a bloody rebel war from 1991 to 2002. It remains one of the world's poorest countries and is notorious as the land of blood diamonds.  Sierra Leone is now at peace, but its infrastructure is still a shambles. Schools, hospitals, clinics and government buildings were all destroyed during the war. 

The Sierra Leonean government, the United Nations and NGOs cannot possibly provide the support necessary to all of the areas in need. Most villages and towns in rural areas are on their own with respect to the rebuilding of their communities.

Sierra Leone Village Partnerships, Inc. (SLVP) is a U.S. non-profit charity with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to helping these smaller communities.  We work directly with local leadership of the village, providing them with what they want, not what we think they need.  We don’t simply give hand outs.  We work together with villages in partnerships providing financial aid with the contractual understanding that it is up to them to do the building and manage their budget.

We've worked in tandem with these remote populations since 2007 to help them rebuild their lives and get back to the business of living.

To see how we operate and what makes us different from other NGOs, view the video below... 

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