by World Hope International | May 13, 2021 | Access to Education, Child Sponsorship, Protection, Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment
Celebrating Families & Bright Futures On May 15th, the world celebrates the International Day of Families, a day established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. It was intended that The International Day of Families would create an opportunity to...
by World Hope International | Apr 1, 2021 | Child & Maternal Health, Child Sponsorship, Enable the Children, Global Health, Healthcare Accessibility, Protection, Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment
Celebrating World Autism Awareness Day with ETC On April 2nd, 2021, the world will celebrate the 14th annual World Autism Awareness Day—a day unanimously established by the UN to highlight the need to help improve the quality of life of those with autism so they can...
by World Hope International | Feb 5, 2021 | Access to Education, Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection, Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment
Equipped for Entrepreneurship Last year, 45 adolescent girls from 10 villages in Sierra Leone were selected for a special soap making & selling training program implemented by World Hope International and funded by the IFC. The girls acquired basic business skills...
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 Dr. 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...
