By James Mansaray | Project Officer
Dear Donors and GlobaliGiving,
Empowering the Girl through Education Project is a Life Changing activity which is improving the lives of girls in Rural Sierra Leone more especially in the North Region. This project has become more popular 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. Throughout this period of COVID-19, we have been focusing on rescuing these girls who have been engaged in forceful and early child marriages, teenage pregnancy and food distributions.
The level of suffering that has affected these girls during this period of COVID-19 is really much; with our intervention we worked very hard to cushion the situation by providing food items to these girls in order to help them stay safe and also from early and forceful marriages, teenage pregnancy etc. We provided food to 100 young girls in three villages (Mathinka, Mabere, Magbonah) to help cushion the hardship imposed by COVID-19. Since schools are now closed, the level of teenage pregnancy is on the increase though we are making a lot of efforts in order to stop this increase by creating a lot of awareness raising campaign programmes targeting young girls and boys within these communities and beyond. From our engagement, we came to realise that bike riders are more in the habit of impregnating young girls, our focus now as an organisation is to hold focus group discussion with these bike riders in an effort to cushion this situation.
The issue of rape and sexual abuse has rise sharply within the country as a whole, with a lot of children raped and died during the cause. A recent situation that sparked the attention of the government is a 9 years old girl, who was raped and died during the cause. Though investigations are ongoing to know details about the said situation. In a police report within six (6) months they have 8,500 of rape cases, but they realised that the number is twice the one that were never reported. We are working very hard along with law makes to popularise the child right act, so people will be well aware about it and also emphases on the dangers of rape and sexual assult.
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.
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