YOOW e.V. was active in Sierra Leone for ten years

From 2004 to 2014, we collected over 500 sewing machines, refurbished them, and sent them to Sierra Leone. In addition, we sent several container loads of bicycles, computers, hospital beds, and medical equipment. An ambulance that had been technically overhauled and equipped by trainees in Berlin was also sent to Mattru Jong. Several containers were equipped as complete metalworking workshops and shipped so that they could be put into operation on site without further ado.
In cooperation with “Ingenieure ohne Grenzen” (Engineers Without Borders Germany), a solar power plant was built in Kamakwie to electrify the Sella Vocational (Training) Center.
We built wells for HOME OF HOPE, a children’s home in Lungi, and for the villages of Makombeh, Gbanti, Farama, and Mabayla. These villages are supported by our project partner MADAM (Mankind’s Activities for Development Accreditation Movement), for whom we also built a maternity clinic. All funds for this came from private donors, to whom we are very grateful!
In the slums of Freetown – the so-called “Gulley Areas” – children are forced to work. These are intelligent children from families who live from hand to mouth. We have enabled many children to attend school by providing them with school uniforms and learning materials.
Children who previously had no opportunities have thus received a basic education.