by World Hope International | Feb 11, 2020 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone High Court Hands Down Sentences on Two Traffickers Convicted in Landmark Anti-Trafficking Case In a courthouse in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Tuesday, February 11th, after being found guilty on 30 counts, two women were sentenced to prison for...
by Jo Anne Lyon | Jan 23, 2020 | Acting in Faith, Sierra Leone
Running Into Pain with Healing Dr. Jo Anne Lyon, founder of World Hope International, recently returned to Sierra Leone after a decade away. She shares below some highlights and reflections from her visit. I just returned from Sierra Leone and was truly amazed at the...
by World Hope International | Jan 9, 2020 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection, Sierra Leone
Strengthening the Capacity of Border Law Enforcement Personnel In a recent breakthrough for trafficking-in-persons (TIP) incidents tied to labour migration, law enforcement officers attached to a Sierra Leone border checkpoint identified and apprehended a major...
by World Hope International | Nov 29, 2019 | Access to Education, Clean Water and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
Well Drilled at School Brings Hygiene & Happiness World Hope International recently completed the provision of a water service system for a primary school in Bombali District, Sierra Leone and went back to the school to see how it’s going and talk with the...
by World Hope International | Oct 8, 2019 | Child & Maternal Health, Child Sponsorship, Enable the Children, Global Health, Sierra Leone
For a few hours on two different days in August, children in World Hope International (WHI)’s Enable the Children (ETC) program got to watch, talk to, and play with some of the best soccer players (also known as “footballers”) in Sierra Leone. At the...
by World Hope International | Aug 27, 2019 | Clean Water and Energy, Clean Water and Sanitation, Global Health, Sierra Leone
World Hope International drilled a new borehole in the Bo District of Sierra Leone, a project that included construction of a fence to protect the well, the hand pump installation, the training of the Water Management Committee (WMC), and the chlorination of the water...
