We completed our third Soroptimist International Study Tour to Sierra Leone in May 2010 and this, like the January tour, proved to be a very special trip. The tour gave participants, representing each SI Federation, the opportunity to meet the young mothers, children and families that you support, first hand and experience the projects in action.
The participants visited projects in the Bo, Makeni, Tambakha, Kamakwie and Kissy and were warmly welcomed everywhere they went. The following images are a selection of pictures taken by participants during the tour and we hope they give you an insight into this amazing trip.
The tour was hosted by Hope and Homes for Children and our in-country partner HANCI (Help a Needy Child in Sierra Leone).
1: Young mothers performing a traditional welcome dance at the Bo Centre (Jan 2010)
2: Village welcome in Makeni (Jan 2010)
3: Group photograph with Makeni’s Paramount Chief (Jan 2010)
4: Young mothers training to be hairdressers at the Bo Centre (Jan 2010)
5: Young mothers on the tailoring skills training at the Bo Centre (Jan 2010)
6: Young mothers gara-tye dying at the Bo Centre (Jan 2010)
7: Lunch prepared by young mothers at the Bo Centre (Jan 2010)
8: Babies being looked after at the Makeni Day Care Centre while their mothers are studying (Jan 2010)
9: A hand-pulled ferry across to remote Tambakha (Jan 2010)
10: Goats given as a gift to the group by the Tambakha villagers (Jan 2010)
11: Lois Kamara, Programme Manager of the Kissy Project, and Alice Wells, SI President-Elect at the Children Living Alone Project, in Kissy (Jan 2010)
12: Children at the Kissy Project in Freetown (Jan 2010)
13: Margaret Cook, SI Asst. Programme Director, talking about Project Sierra on the radio (Jan 2010)
14: Group photograph of the ladies from the Freetown Soroptimists (Jan 2010)
15. Welcome Ceremony with young mothers in Bo (May 2010)
16. Alison Sutherland, SI International Project Liaison, with participant Suba Parthiban (May 2010)
17. Welcome from the villagers of Makeni (May 2010)
18. Beneficiaries of the tailoring programme in Kissy (May 2010)
19. Demonstration of welding in Kissy (May 2010)
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