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Nurse training, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2020-2023
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) provides medical assistance to people in need. In some cases, MSF makes a long-term commitment to a country, such as Sierra Leone. Health care, especially for children and mothers, is very poor. For this reason, MSF, in close consultation with the government, has set up a hospital in Kenema specialising in paediatrics and maternity care. In addition to providing medical assistance, the hospital is going to be a training place for new healthcare personnel. In the coming years they want to train 180 new nurses on the job to become independently operating professionals. MSF can utilise its accumulated knowledge and experience, and hopes that the government will eventually adopt its extensive curriculum with better teaching methods focusing on the students and incorporating self-assessment and peer review. The Turing Foundation is contributing €100,000 towards this project (of which, €25,000 in 2023). See also: Other vocational training projects  Training nurses, Kenema, Sierra Leone. Foto ©MSF/Vincenzo Livieri |
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Growing small businesses through apprenticeship training, Pujehun, Sierra Leone, 2020-2022
Action on Poverty UK stimulates employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. Turing has previously supported two of their programmes in the country. This project supplements a larger programme strengthening nineteen Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in the disadvantaged district of Pujehun so that members are better able to improve the lives of residents in their community. Among other things, they learn how they can help 38 craftsmen to transfer their skills to young people. CBO members are also taught to train 380 young people in entrepreneurship and literacy. The CBOs are given a rotating fund to manage, which provides loans to graduates to start new businesses or grow existing businesses. Experience from previous programmes shows that this kind of intervention gives a good and lasting boost to villagers' activities and self-reliance. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 50,000 towards this project.
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 Community Based Organisation, Action on Poverty, Sierra Leone |
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Habitat Restoration in Loma Mountains National Park, Sierra Leone, 2021-2022
Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary looks after captive and orphaned chimpanzees, but also wants to prevent this by teaching children in schools and communities about the importance of nature. The organisation also works with the National Protected Area Authority (NPAA) to better protect their habitat, such as in the Loma Mountains National Park. With this project, the Sanctuary has enabled 21 local communities to do restoration and protection work themselves. The Sanctuary has also strengthened law enforcement and biomonitoring. Over the next two years, communities will grow and plant out 70,000 seedlings, restoring degraded areas in and around the nature conservation park. The payment they will receive will be used to develop nature-friendly income-generating activities such as beekeeping or food gardens. The Turing Foundation is contributing €52,000 towards this project (of which, €26,000 in 2022).  Habitat Restoration in Loma Mountains National Park, Sierra Leone |
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"Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2018-2021
The British NGO Street Child started in 2008 with a small project for 100 street children in Sierra Leone. Street Child has now reached more than 100,000 children in Africa and Asia with its 'Education, Protection and Methodology' programmes. Together with its local partner Street Child of Sierra Leone, Street Child wants to use this project to improve the quality of education for 7,000 pupils at 35 schools and ensure that 1,400 pupils complete their final examinations every year. The 'Distant Learning' programme is giving a total of 50 unqualified teachers official training and recognition as teachers. Three senior teachers at each school receive extra training on the curriculum and general teaching skills. Pupils are given school materials and a classroom is being renovated. Initiatives are also being started to generate an income for the schools. The Turing Foundation is contributing €100,000 towards this project (of which, €13,000 in 2021).
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 "Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone |
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Health, wealth and wellbeing for women, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2019-2022
Tools for Self Reliance is a British organisation which aims to enable people in Africa to make a sustainable living by giving them professional training and tools in the form of a start kit. A large part of their work involves collecting and refurbishing tools. They do this together with a group of 750 volunteers across the country. They work in six African countries including Sierra Leone. The Turing Foundation has supported a previous project of theirs which was successful. This new project involves 200 women in and around the capital Freetown. Their local partner is the Baptist Women's Union. The women do a one-year vocational training course. Upon completion they are given a starter kit so that they can start work immediately. Meetings are also organised in their communities to raise awareness and support for their socio-economic development. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 40,000 towards this project.
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 Health, wealth and wellbeing for women, Sierra Leone |
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Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone, 2018-2022
The Pan African Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) was established in 1992 by five female African ministers of education and nineteen senior policy makers, with the aim of improving education for girls and women in Sub-Saharan Africa. FAWE Sierra Leone wants to increase the proportion of female teachers in primary education in rural areas. 50 young women in Kambia district are being given the opportunity to work as teaching assistants for six months. This will give them classroom experience and help them prepare for the entrance exam for the Distant Learning Programme. They will continue to work as teacher assistants during the training programme. Together with the 100 women already in the second year of the Distant Learning Programme, a total of 150 women will have earned their teaching qualifications by the end of the project. The Turing Foundation is contributing €150,000 towards this project (of which, €50,000 in 2021).
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 Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone |
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Apprenticeships programme for women in Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2018-2021
The British NGO Action on Poverty specifically focuses on creating jobs for disadvantaged groups in Sri Lanka and four African countries, including Sierra Leone. The Turing Foundation already supported one of its projects in Sierra Leone in the period 2016-2017, which gave a total of 1,200 young people vocational training. Up to now all the graduates have been able to find work, either as an employee or self-employed. This project involves a new group of 200 women selected from a total target group of 3,500 for adult education. For one to one-and-a-half years they get practical lessons from an entrepreneur and then work there or start their own company. The entrepreneurs learn how to provide good training places for this group and for afterwards. Community Based Organisations learn how to bring this training to entrepreneurs. The Turing Foundation is contributing €59,000 towards this project (of which, €19,000 in 2020)
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 Apprenticeships program for women in Kenema, Sierra Leone |
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Vocational skills development and income generation for youth, Sierra Leone, 2016-2018
Action on Poverty (APT) is a British NGO that aims to create employment for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. APT is supporting the local organisation Movement for Assistance and Promotion of Rural Communities (MAPCO) in providing 240 young people with vocational training. MAPCO supplies local craftsmen with the materials and tools with which to teach their work to an average of ten young people. Trained members of community based organisations (CBOs) give young people business training courses, teach literacy when necessary, and provide access to credit through funds managed by the CBOs. This increases these young people's chances of a sustainable livelihood. The Turing Foundation is contributing €96,000 towards this project, earmarked for the vocational training courses, of which €31,000 in 2018.
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 Vocational skills development and income generation for youth, Sierra Leone |
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Strengthening of three vocational education institutions, Sierra Leone, 2016-2018
Since 1987 the Dutch organisation Tools to Work has been providing vocational education institutions and novice entrepreneurs in developing countries with reconditioned tools and machinery. This teaches young adults a practical trade which gives them a greater opportunity to make their own living. Three vocational training institutions in Sierra Leone are each receiving a container with the sewing machines, computers, tools, printers, and machines they requested. In addition, sixteen teachers are being trained to repair and maintain sewing machines. This knowledge transfer will contribute towards the sustainability of the initiative. The Turing Foundation is contributing €37,000 towards this project, of which, €6,000 in 2018.
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 Strengthening three vocational training facilities, Sierra Leone |
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Vocational training for 250 young people, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2016-2018
Christian Aid has been working in Sierra Leone for more than 20 years with a local team of 24 people and local organisations like the national NGO Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD). The organisations have a similar approach: they enable people to improve their own situation. This project will enable 250 young adults in Kono district to receive vocational training. They will be given a training place of their choice at existing workshops in Gbense, Tankoro and Fiama. Practitioners at these workshops are being taught training techniques. This project enables young people to develop a sustainable occupation and offers them an alternative to insecure and deplorable work in mines. The Turing Foundation is donating € 75,000 to this project (about 50% of the total budget).
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 Vocational training for 250 young people, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2016-2018 |
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Sustainable livelihood for 150 unemployed youth in Bo City, Sierra Leone, 2016-2017
Tools for Self Reliance is a British organisation whose purpose is to increase employment in Africa by providing young people with a training course and a starter kit of refurbished tools. The organisation has been working in Sierra Leone for a long time with the local organisation Craftshare, which has its own training centre. 150 young people in Bo City are being given a one-year vocational training course in one of eight selected occupations. After the training course all alumni are given a starter kit so they can begin right away in their field of expertise. The Turing Foundation is contributing €19,500 (85% of the budget) to make this project possible, of which, €10,000 in 2017.
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 Tailoring Trainees, Sierra Leone |
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Enhancing Quality Education in three rural primary schools, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2014-2016
ActionAid is an international development organisation that aims to improve access to and quality of education because it believes this as a fundamental human right. It operates in 45 countries, including Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone ActionAid is improving the quality of education for 850 children at three primary schools by training teachers in better teaching techniques with better teaching materials. School management is also being improved using trainings and by strengthening its position in relation to educational authorities. Girls are disadvantaged and often unsafe in and around school, which is being addressed by raising awareness on radio shows, organising specific workshops and setting up girls' clubs. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 95,000 to make this project possible (of which, € 20,000 in 2016). See also: Other teacher training projects  Girls in front of the new Junior Secondary School, constructed with the support of ActionAid. Kono District, Sierra Leone |
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Teacher Training Rural Primary Education, Tambakha, Sierra Leone, 2014-2016
Street Child is dedicated to make quality education available for the most vulnerable children in Sierra Leone, and so far they have reached 20,000 children in 30 locations throughout the country already. By training 100 teachers and building 20 basic educational facilities in 60 communities in the northern region of Tambakha, the foundation will reach 4,000 children. The teacher trainee programme/course takes three years to complete, and leads to a government qualification. The Turing Foundation contributes € 90,000 (25% of the total budget).
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 Teacher Training Rural Primary Education, Tambakha, Sierra Leone |
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Access to quality education in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone, 2013-2015
In Sierra Leone, the number of children receiving an education is extremely low, and especially girls are often not going to school at all. This research project set up by Plan Nederland will allow 1,500 children to receive quality education. One of the express goals of the project is to realize a 50% participation level for girls. The project consists of the building of a school, and trainings for 50 teachers, 75 government employees, and the school management. On top of that, parent committees will be founded, and the project will be creating local awareness on the importance of the education of children and girls in particular. The Turing Foundation will be donating € 145,000 towards the realization of quality education for 1,500 children (€ 45,000 in 2015).
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 Access to quality education in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone |
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