As part of our long-term strategy and working with other charities, business organisations and government institutions, we intend to focus significant resources to achieve the foregoing objectives.
-Set up a special campaign, by working closely with the National blood service and the local African community in the UK to encourage blood donation from the African community,
Set a special trust to;
-fund a clean drinking water campaign, by proving water wells in various parts of Sierra Leone,
– provide scholarship for children and adults from the poorest families in Sierra Leone
– to assist with seed capital and entrepreneurship training for youths and adults with a compelling business model and strong drive to succeed in any business sector they choose
– assist poor farmers with tools, seeds and training, to enhance crop yield in Sierra Leone- especially for farmers in the corn sector.
– to work with internationally recognised smart early learning education provider, to address the extremely poor state of primary education in Sierra Leone.According to UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, 97% of Sierra Leonean students score zero in an Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) reading comprehension in Primary 2, and By Primary 4 (after investing in 4 years of education), 60% still score zero on the same reading comprehension EGRA.
-To work with the local National Health Trust in the UK, to set up health videos programmes in several local African languages on our web site, on various medical issues affecting the African communities in Britain.
-Continue to work very closely with the Cambodia Trust, set up a prosthetic training centre in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
-To actively seek means of empowering amputees, through education, training and other opportunities, by working with organisations like the Cambodia Trust and others.
To deliver our strategic plan, we will investin four key areas of the charity – ourpeople, our fundraising, our brand and ourcommunications. We are fortunate to be ahighly respected charity and have significantsupport from the UK public, because of ourtrack record in helping people.
As a first step to achieve these strategic objectives, we have embarked on an integrated poultry project inSierra Leone. The site of operation has been completed on a 1.5 acre of land at Waterloo town, few kilometres outside the city Freetown. This site is designed to host, 12,200 birds (8,704 layers and 3,500 broilers), small a breeder, an Incubation den, small feed mill, storage facility and a small office. The first shipment of 2000 birds arrived in Freetown in December 2020, with others to follow soon.
To supplement the importation of feeds and birds in the future, we intend to pioneer contract farming in suitable areas across the Sierra Leone. It is our hope that this initiative will create thousands of rural entrepreneurs who will share our growth successfully. “Poultry Integration” which will be introduced by us in the country-and will energise the livelihoods of farmers. The model will protect and retain the interests of both the farmer and the integrator. The popularity of this model will be influenced by the fact that the integrator takes most of the risks as opposed to the independent farmer. We will take full responsibility of providing layer pairs, feed, medicines and supervision to the farmers. In addition, we willimplement Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), and technical know-how, which will lead to higher productivity, Furthermore, farmers will be assured of considerable earnings in the integrated / contract farming model.
Finally, with the strategicaim to provide consumers with fresh, clean and hygienic packed chicken, we planto set up a chain of small modern retail outlets and partner with poultry farms throughout Sierra Leone.