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25th Anniversary of Don Bosco Fambul
SIERRA LEONE: Don Bosco Fambul celebrates 25 years

Located in Sierra Leone’s capital city of Freetown, Don Bosco Fambul is one of the country’s leading child-welfare organizations. It has been on the forefront of efforts to help save young women who have faced abuse and prostitution and to rehabilitate street children and reunite them with their families. In December 2023, the Salesian organization celebrated its 25-year anniversary.

Don Bosco Fambul expands with grant secured by Salesian Missions
SIERRA LEONE: Don Bosco Fambul expands child-welfare work with grant secured by Salesian Missions

Don Bosco Fambul in Freetown, one of Sierra Leone’s leading child-welfare organizations, has added staffing support thanks to a grant from the Flora Family Foundation secured by Salesian Missions. Don Bosco Fambul provides a range of programs to help support youth who are living on the streets, girls who have faced sexual abuse, young women who have forced into prostitution and youth in trouble with the law.

Don Bosco Fambul of Sierra Leone
SIERRA LEONE: Youth rescued from streets

Salesian missionaries have been serving in Sierra Leone since 2001, when they began working to rehabilitate former child soldiers. In the years since, Don Bosco Fambul, located in the capital city of Freetown, has become one of the country’s leading child welfare organizations. It offers food, clothing, crisis intervention services, shelter, educational opportunities, long-term counseling and family reunification.

SIERRA LEONE: Over 600 girls rescued through program

Don Bosco Fambul, one of Sierra Leone’s leading child-welfare organizations located in Freetown, offers the Girls Shelter GO+ program to support young girls who have been forced into sex work. Some of the girls are as young as 9 years old. Since the program was launched six years ago, it has changed the lives of more than 600 girls.

SIERRA LEONE: Don Bosco Fambul provides life-changing medical care

Don Bosco Fambul in Sierra Leone operates a medical clinic that provides services to youth in its program and members of the community. The clinic was officially certified and verified as a hospital by the government of Sierra Leone. This enables the clinic to do even more for the community and expands medical services to those in poverty. Donors provided the equipment necessary to help the clinic pass the certification.

SIERRA LEONE: Donor funding helps marginalized students

St. Augustine Agricultural Junior Secondary School, located in Lungi, Sierra Leone, received support from donor funding from Salesian Missions. The school, which was established in 1984, has 14 classrooms, a computer lab, an infirmary/clinic and an administrative building. The school provides education to marginalized students in the region. It currently has 700 students, 34 teachers and four auxiliary staff, including a nurse.

SIERRA LEONE: 30 village families employed in tea production

Salesian missionaries in Tikonko, in the Bo district of Sierra Leone, have transformed the economy of an entire village by employing 30 families in harvesting and drying the leaves of the Moringa oleifera plant. The plant, imported from India, is also called a miracle plant and makes a black tea powder that acts as a food supplement and is used to enrich soups.

SIERRA LEONE: Parish construction partially completed thanks to funding from Salesian Missions

Salesian missionaries with St. Augustine’s Parish, located in the Dworzak community within Freetown, Sierra Leone, have partially completed construction of a new church thanks to donor funding provided by Salesian Missions. Salesians are seeking additional funding to finalize the project. With the additional funding, the next phase of the project will include electrical, plumbing, floors, walls and painting.

SIERRA LEONE: Program for girls facing abuse honored

Don Bosco Fambul won the “Solidarity Project Award” from the Spanish daily newspaper ABC for the Girls Os+ program. The program provides support and recovery for underage girls who are victims of sexual violence and abuse and forced into prostitution. Since the program was launched five years ago, it has changed the lives of more than 600 girls and given them the opportunity to start a new life and access education.