A CHILD NEEDS YOUR HELP

OBJECTIVES OF CHILDHELP

Victory Mission Childhelp Sierra Leone aims to assist needy children, their families and communities in developing countries to achieve better lives through comprehensive, tailor-made self-help programs that bring lasting results in health, education and livelihood. Through personal communications, sponsors encourage and motivate children and families. Both sponsors and sponsored children have the opportunity to know each other’s share cultures and concerns and promote international understanding and peace.

VM Childhelp Sierra Leone is a nationality child development organization linking caring people in the world and at home with needy children and their families in Sierra Leone, Kenya, Guinea and Liberia countries. VMC implement development programs to help families lift themselves out of poverty, together they combine VM Childhelp’s proven, individualized assistance with personal communications and comprehensive accountability to sponsors. Programmes in communities are strengthened by development education worldwide.

VISION & MISSION

VISION:

Childhelp Sierra Leone through its activities envisions communities, enable children and their families to live in Dignity and Worthy life while they realise the full potential of mellifluous and savoury livelihood.

MISSION

Childhelp Sierra Leone mission is to:

v Help forward and support community efforts to improve the quality of life of children and their families

v Make easy a process of communication amongst different cultures, to enhance mutual understanding and appreciation

v Promote the Rights and Interest of children

v Support and facilitate the programmes of God’s Kingdom in a hurting community

PROBLEMS

Thousand of our Sierra Leone children are seriously affected by rebel war and other factors and need love and care. Childhelp Sierra Leone is a sponsorship and adoption programme for children aged (1) day old to 16 years, who are now hopeless and homeless, living in overcrowded, shattered or burnt homes. The suffering and the various act on them is too great and have caused our children to be victims of various act of violence, untold suffering, crimes, frequent raping, female genital mutilation, unwanted pregnancies and babies, orphans, amputees, street children and many are seriously involved in prostitution. Over 690,000 children are traumatised and thousands has lost their mothers and relatives, properties and houses burnt down. You cannot help them all but; you can be a lifesaver for one child as a CHILDHELP sponsor.

ACTIVITIES

1. ADVOCACY AND PUBLIC POLICY 2. CHILD SPONSORSHIP AND ADOPTION 3. EDUCATION (INCL. HIV/AIDS) 4. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 5. SOCIAL WELFARE 6.DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION

7. VOLUNTEERING SERVICE

WHO IS A SPONSOR: A sponsor is a special friend who can take care of a poor child here monthly. A specify child is assigned to you, by sending regular monthly support to provide his basic needs. This monthly support provides your child with decent clothing’s, money for school fees and supplies, supplementary food, medical care and Christian guardian.

PERSONAL JOY: Your love can be shared personally by exchanging visits, letter and photos. You can provide gifts for your child’s birthday and for Christians, visits each other and can adopt a child to stay with you. This is one-to-one way of sharing you love. Your love can change your foster child’s life. Adoption is possible legally.

ACTION!

Begin today by sending U.S.D. 15 or any amount if you decide to sponsor a child. A particular child needed with photo and file records will be sent to you. Regular progress reports from our field workers will be sent to sponsors concerning your foster/adoptive child. You can stop at any time.

Please write today. Childhelp is love in action! You can e-mail this coupon.

CHILDHELP started full in operation in 1994, works closely with Children Ministries, Missions, Evangelical Missionaries, church leaders, Government agencies, individuals etc.

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CHILDHELP - Sierra Leone

Address: 48, Wellington Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

99 Bai Bureh Rd, Grassfield, Kissy, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Or 14 Sylvanus Street, Makeni, Northern Province, Sierra Leone

Tele: 232 22 224948/ 229954

COUNTRIES: Guinea, Liberia and Kenya

Email: victorymission@hotmail.com

NEWS

In the next few months, World Computer exchange will ship 400 pieces of computers for 54 schools and orphanages in Sierra Leone. The schools computer clubs are now in operation. The Headquarter office is now opened.

According to recent report from local papers, the UN-WFP for West African Region – Manuel Aranda da Silva, stressed on the need of urgent food aid to West Africa, especially Sierra Leone. Without this aid, there will be a dangerous effect on the political situation. Women and Children especially those returning will be seriously affected after the May 14^th, 2002 Elections. The Doctors and Nurses are still on strike since last year 2001 and many people including children are dyeing every day at the Hospitals, Clinics etc for lack of medical attention. This strike is due to the delayance and non-improvement of salaries. Childhelp in collaboration with Institute of Nursing Studies will be treating children and therefore need medical professional to urgent help for 3 months to 3years. Recently, 42551 fighters including children were disarmed and demobilised in all the Districts. Nurses and Doctors started strike from October 2001 and Government has not yet paid them not even listening to their plea. Children are dying for want of care and medical support.

Urgent need for the children in Sierra Leone:

Food, Clothing, Shoes, Towels, Blankets, Beds, Mattresses, Study books, Stationary, Arts supplies, Monthly child support, FM Radio, Garden tools and seeds, Bicycles

New Homes for returning children, Medical relief and equipment, family support, Orphanages to built in whole country, Repatriation and re-integration support for children.

Volunteers are needed: Nurses, Doctors, Teachers, Childcare/social workers, Computer software and hardware tutors, Environmental Project workers, Administrative and financial managers, Advocacy; Lawyers/Solicitors are need to fight the cause of children abused in Sierra Leone. Childhelp is getting many reports on child trafficking, raping, forced marriages and labour.  NOTE!! that Volunteers pay for their own airfare and a service programme fee.

We make available to people who donate to CHILDHELP:

> Audit Report> Children's Pictures> Children's Stories> Web Site> Guest rooms> Tours

> Receipts >Tracing of gifts (showing a gift given and the expense made of this money)

 and Correspondence with child.

CHILDHELP STILL HAVE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN PHOTOS WHO NEED ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARING. Write  or Email us TODAY !!!

Thanks to all those who help in giving out Christmas blessings to their children.

God bless you.

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Yes! I would like to sponsor a needy

Child Boy Girl or Twins

At $30 $25 $20 $15

$ - Monthly. I therefore, enclose

my first contribution.

I choose this child(ren) from the web

Page or list.

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I can’t sponsor a child, but enclose a

Gift of $500 $200 $100

$50 $--------

Send more details and photograph(s)

Introducing me to specific child(ren)

In need.

I would like to be a member of

CHILDHELP FAMILY, to support,

Promote and advocate for childhelp.

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N.B. Details of money/gift transfer needed

Will be sent. Gifts are tax-deductible. Thanks.

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