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Sierra Leone.
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Sport For Empowerment Foundation Sierra Leone
To create a learning environment, opportunities and to empower the minds and lives of young people th
As parents find it very difficult to support and monitor their children's development because of lacking education and understanding of the importance of their presence in doing so, we have committed our team to do home and school monitoring of the children we work with in our programs across Sierra Leone.![]()
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Over the week, our team coordinator Agnes Rugiatu Sesay was out in Makeni as part of her responsibility to monitor and engage the caretakers of the children we work with.![]()
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Sorie Ibrahim Koroma was also out as part of his responsibility to monitor the school attendance of children in our programs out there in Makeni.![]()
This is part of building their capacity in our program. Koroma is a first-year student at UNIMAK University in Makeni. While Sesay is a graduate of EBK University in Makeni.![]()
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We want to appreciate you all for your efforts out there.
A few days ago, two of our university students were asked out of lectures for failure to pay their fees. ![]()
This was done deliberately by us because they are not living up to their responsibility as agreed. After a series of meetings, we all agreed on moving forward and giving them a second chance.![]()
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Our country coordinator Agnes Rugiatu Sesay took them to the bank where she made sure their fees were paid and they can return to the university again to continue their studies.![]()
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Our work is a two-way approach with the students or communities we work with. You do your community service and send reports to the head office on the WhatsApp group with pictorial evidence called on the spot. Evaluation of your report is done and put into our database. This process will earn the student's university fees and other services provided by the Sport For Empowerment Foundation Sierra Leone.![]()
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We are a very small committed group that believes in the power of sports to shape today's future for our young people across Sierra Leone and other places across the world.![]()
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If you feel like wanting to join our team, please do so by getting in touch with us here or send us an email at Info@sportforempowermentsl.com.
We are super excited to see our work come this far in promoting education and giving opportunities to children who seem to be left out by a lack of support from their parents or society.![]()
Students of our school took the National Primary Schools Examination earlier today. ![]()
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By Monday, our own Alpha Amadu Bah who we have worked with and supported right from primary to university will be taking the Bar Examination at Law school in Sierra Leone.![]()
Bah is an exceptional guy full of knowledge and was born as a leader. ![]()
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Right from primary school and community life, Bah was nicknamed Manager because of his performance at school and show of leadership skills and qualities. ![]()
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Today he runs Sport For Empowerment Foundation Sierra Leone and Action For Children Network and organizations he founded while in school. Bah has had the opportunity to crisscross various parts of Sierra Leone in conducting training or running mentorship programs for his peers and adults. He has traveled outside of Sierra Leone to participate in leadership skills training and development programs for young people. At his now, Bah is just at the beginning of excellence in his life. ![]()
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Bah is a founding member of Friends In Sport Academy School Freetown off Regent Road Lumley Kamayama.![]()
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We want to use this opportunity in wishing Bah and the entire children of our school success in their various exams.
Children across Africa and some parts of the world see sport as a means to get out of poverty or get opportunities to become better people.![]()
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My country Sierra Leone is one in which children participate in sports not to have fun or because their friends are playing the same sport. They all come to the sport for opportunities of changing they're and become stars.![]()
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At Sport For Empowerment Foundation, we have been working around trying to change that narrative amongst them with the use of education to drive sport.![]()
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We use sports to engage them and work on their behavioral attitude in society. The pathway to any better starts is education and sport to create a balance for participants to stay healthy and look after their lifestyle.![]()
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In recent times, we have been reaching new communities around Kono with our activities. ![]()
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Our coordinator Fanday Aiah Musa Etoo was on a working visit to new communities to access the level of education and sport there among the children. The visit climaxed with a club football match between Soccer Ranger who were runners-up U 12 in the Sport For Empowerment Foundation Youths Development League against Kanta community Under 12. The match was the very first to have ever played in the community.
The progress of every nation depends on how serious its people are about education. ![]()
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My country Sierra Leone for some reason has been struggling to build itself because education since independence does not cater for everyone. ![]()
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There are communities where children still have to work miles for school and to some extent not safe for early childhood education. ![]()
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These problems can be solved when we have schools in communities that can create an environment safe for education. ![]()
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With our Sport For Empowerment Foundation, we are working on building community schools that will assist to develop earlier childhood development and adult education to drive parents to mind in supporting their children.![]()
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We can't do all of this alone. For this reason, we are calling on you all to join us in this drive as we push for the construction of our first proper school within the Kamayama community in Freetown off Regent Road Lumley.![]()
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In the video, you will see block construction work ongoing with a message from our team on the ground.![]()
Think with us, support us, and let's make this dream come true.