Sierra Leone Project Information:
The Need
Sierra Leone is still reeling from the terrible war experienced just a few years ago. The movie, Blood Diamond, accurately matches the descriptions of the horror every person faced. Children and victims of merciless disease suffer to this day.
Teams renovate children's homes and help the many victims of polio and disease. $1195 plus airfare covers in-country food, lodging, local transport, and some site seeing. Sharing personnel meets you at the airport and arrange the details for a real impact through your mission trip!
Polio Women and Girls
Polio is a virus that causes awful disability by weakening arms and legs and robbing a person's ability to walk. Preventable by vaccination, it is all but wiped out from Western civilization. It had been eradicated from Sierra Leone. During the brutal civil war of the 1990's, the breakdown of the country's medical system allowed the crippling illness to spread among the vulnerable left in the wake. Many are turned out of their homes and jobs.
Four courageous ladies, themselves victims of the disease, formed an association of fifty Polio women and their children for mutual support. The association runs simple projects to earn money for basic necessities of life. They dye cloth, make clothes, cut hair and are now setting up a telephone call center. Despite their hard work, living accommodations are appalling, sleeping up to nine per 10X10 bedroom. Some have no place to sleep. They receive no government help and no support of any kind, but do their best to help themselves. Their motto is "disability is not inability!"
Impact a Community!
Sharing Ministries builds living quarters, which include bedrooms, plus a living and cooking area. We build modular blocks of three bedrooms at a time. In "Phase One" other teams built six bedrooms, with toilets and showers under way. "Phase Two" calls for nine more bedrooms. Every dollar given goes 100% to the project. The cost, with local labor and team volunteers is $6,000 per bedroom. We encourage all team members to raise money for the project through church fund-raisers. The more you raise, the more we will be able to do when we arrive. Please help these women and girls. Make checks to "Sharing Ministries," and in a note include "Polio Women and Girls, Sierra Leone". Thank you!