Sport For Empowerment Foundation (SFEF) is a community-based organisation in Sierra Leone which leverages the power of sport and education to enable young people to empower themselves to improve their own lives and those of their peers.
We believe that real development can only be realised when local communities are genuinely empowered with the tool set to drive their own development. This belief is fundamental to the conception and design of our project.
Spin-off project; Ebola Orphan Project
We at Ebola Orphan Project believe everyone has the right to a basic education.
SFE has conducted several tennis workshops either at local schools or with a group of children from the area. We use the tennis rackets that we collect from people in the Netherlands but we have also made our own wooden bats.
Below you can read the full report of a meeting which was held in June 2025 to distribute school materials to all the pupils of the Sport For Empowerment Foundation.
In April 2014, a small group of active runners joined together and ran the 5 and 10 km during the “Dwars Door Dordt” run. By doing this, they raised about € 500,- which was used for the youth of the foundation.
Our driving aim is to contribute to the forging of a new Sierra Leonean generation: one that is more educated, one that is more empowered and one that is more self-aware. With these tools we believe that Sierra Leonean youths will be better equipped than their forefathers to drive the micro and macro changes that stifle the development of Sierra Leone.
To achieve this ambitious vision we have set ourselves a set of short, medium, and long-term objectives:
Short-term
Between now and 2025 our efforts will be focused on realising the following objectives:
The teachers of our partner ‘Friends in Sport Academy’ (FiSA) in Freetown were on a summer training learning about budget making and report writing and how to use their mobile phones for daily work.
FiSA had a 100% passing score of all pupils taking the high school exams (WASSCE). This is unique! It shows the seriousness and the hard work they are all putting in it. This is the fifth time in a row all pupils have passed their exams!
School shopping for our three Ebola orphans who are still in secondary school is taking place this september.
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