Empowering the Girl Child through Education

Dear GlobalGiving, Donors,

We are very much grateful for spearing your valuable time to go through this letter of acknowledgement, thanks and appreciation for your tremendous contributions which has brought a lot of change in the lives of our beneficiaries throughout 2022. With your contribution we have enjoyed a season of love, concern and care which has foster a lot of change in the lives of these less fortunate. We are marvel with your social and humanitarian contribution towards these children, their families and The Needy Today. This has really speaks volume in the lives of these children.

Your roles have been fascinating since you opted to join GlobalGiving Foundation in helping meaningful projects like ours. Some of these viable causes like ours do not attract major funding, but they are more real than even the ones that do. GlobalGiving has made the cries of these less fortunate be heard. Your contributions means the whole world to us, which has lift the poor out of poverty, give voice to the voiceless, agitate for the oppress, and creating and building bridges together for a better world. Your donations have made dropping out of school is no longer a reality within our areas of operations, continued campaign on ending early child marriages, FGM, Teenage pregnancy, Gender based violence, trained community volunteer to report on early child marriages, monitoring litigation on rape cases for minors in high courts.

Our quest for success was far fetched until you came around to support these causes by contributing your hard earning money and suggestions. From the depth of our hearts, we sincerely appreciate all your major contributions both recurring and one-off. Even those who didn’t contribute financially but help create awareness about these causes; you are well appreciated from the bottom of our hearts.

You are truly a special partner to us, for putting smiles on the faces of these beneficiaries. Also, you have decided to support our mission and vision which is well appreciated, because of this we shall forever remain grateful to you and rest of your families for your unending love you continue to manifest. You are really one in a million, despite all the important things you have to address like family issues, cars, fuel, food, housing, etc you still squeeze and make a meaningful donation. In spite of this tight economy we live, you still create a way to be a blessing to these less fortunate. Your support has been really great especially creating more awareness by letting others know about our causes.

We called you friends and partners because we share common goals and ambition in helping these beneficiaries. Because of your contributions a lot has been blessed and we will continue to appreciate you endlessly for your countless support.

I was actually pondering if you were not here with us to achieve this huge success and brining a lot of smiles on the faces of these beneficiaries. How exactly it should have been without you. God will reward you abundantly for such sacrifices in helping these children regain their lost glory. Because of this and all that you intend doing God in heaven will bless you and all that concerns you.

We will continue to update you about our achievement and how your monies are spent. On behalf of ‘The Needy Today’, we want to say a big thank you for your supports, donations and unending love you continue to manifest. We cannot sit down silently by failing to wish you happy Christmas and prosperous New Year in advance and God’s richest blessings.

Furthermore, our campaigns are online and they need more support to meet the needs of poverty stricken children left behind, to access their basic rights and achieve great success. Base on this, we are still counting on you to continue your support and help us tell others about our work and what we have achieved so far.

We are really short of words to express our gratitude but God will surely reward you bountifully.

Respectfully yours,

Hannah Bangura 

Dear Donors and GlobalGiving,

Empowering the Girl through Education Project is a Life Changing programme activity that has played tremendous roles in the life of children and women as a whole in the northern part of Sierra LEone. This project has change the narrative in terms of not sending the girl child to school. It was actually a daunting task to change a long aged tradition, which has limited women and girls to the kitchen or the back. The project continues to make inroads in various communities due to its impacts in the lives of girls.  The project is becoming more popular than expected due to its role in the lives of these girl children, giving rights and power to girls has been the bedrock of this project, which has helped a lot of girls regain their lost dignities.

In view of the above, the organisation has engaged in mass sensitisation in various communities (Moria Pan House,  Mathinka, Mokondo, Laya, Kerefay Loko Etc) about the important of educating the girl child and also frustrate the efforts of the cultural norms in these communities, which has prevented girls in the past to access education. According to one traditional leaders in one these  communities they have never got such an opportunity to receive messages and support from any organisation. But with our intervention it will make a huge difference in the lives of these girls and women in their communities. These communities are hard to reach due to the bad road network.  

Tech for changes, an organisation based in the UK have partnered with us to train 500 girls in ICT, we have bought 10 computers and projector for the computer classes.  This training is introducing these girls to the ICT world, and have also change their mentality about computers. According to one girl, this is her first time to see or touch a computer, this moment has brought a lot of job to her and her family.  

The project still continues with it engagement to end or stop early and forceful marriages. From our engagement, we came to realise that bike riders are more in the habit of impregnating young girls, our focus was shifted to engage these riders in an effort to cushion this situation.  

We are working very hard along with law makers to popularise the child right act, so people will be well aware about it and also emphases on the dangers of rape and sexual assaults.

With this we want to say thank you for your continued supports and we hope we can able to support more children if funds are available.

Thank you and God bless you abundantly for putting smiles into the faces of the children