AWOL Australia, since its founding here in Australia have been involved in several Charity projects like sponsoring disable and less fortunate Sierra Leoneans, Giving out scholarships to school kids which on going. And currently sponsor Escario Pascual School, which is an orphanage in Freetown, around waterloo area, which we are building an ultra-modern Library, soon to be opened.
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Charity
Introduction
Education &
empowerment
The day of the African child
Gondama project
Being a chapter of a Global Organisation of Sierra Leoneans with an ideology to “Put Salone Fos”, charity has always been part of AWOL Australia’s responsibilities to Sierra Leoneans in need. Since our inauguration in 2015, AWOL Australia has been part of numerous charitable activities as an independent entity and in collaboration with the AWOL Global community. We have extended our charitable hands in areas of education and empowerment, support to government and victims of natural disasters and the dreadful Ebola epidemic.
Our vision is to ‘empower individuals to acquire education and resources necessary to acquire self-
sufficiency’. Education is not just a necessity for individual empowerment but also very important for
the development of a nation. It is for this reason that education has been one of our most important
charitable active over the years. AWOL Australia has been part of the charitable celebrations of the
Day of the African Child; on the 16th day of June every year. This celebration has been a motivation
for many children to stay in school and it is climaxed every year with feeding and award of scholarships worth millions of Leones.
As an independent entity, we also support school going children in Sierra Leone with full time scholarship.
AWOL started the celebrations of the day of the African child in 2007 as a way of motivating children to stay in school. Activities in the celebrations include; feeding, donations of learning materials and scholarship to the less privilege children. Since it was introduced, the school feeding and awards program in 2007 and has since been an important annual event in its calendar of activities. Over the years the organisation has reached out to school children in many deprived communities across Sierra Leone, including Kroo Bay and Mabella in Freetown.
The Gondama school project is the construction of a Le 900M school in Gondama, Tikonko Chiefdom
in the Southern District of Bo by AWOL Global. The venture is to give hope and inspire school pupils
to work hard and aspire for higher heights. Gondama Town used to host one of the biggest Liberian
refugee camp in sierra Leone and it was also one of the most affected places during the civil war in
sierra Leone. Even after the war, the township is still deprived of any form of modern education; a
reason for which it was chosen to be supported by AWOL. The project site is on the highway to
Liberia and shares location with the 5 th Infant Brigade of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. The school
will be ready before the next academic year.
Ebola
Flood 2015
Flood and musdlide 2017
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AWOL was the first organisation to support government in the fight against Ebola. AWOL Australia
together with AWOL Global distributed thousands of hand sanitizers across the country. We also
gave our support to the call of AWOL Global to provide for the less privilege people across the
country during the three days lockdown with food items. We are humble but proud to say that we
contributed to the food items which included 2205 bags of rice, 500 gallons of cooking oil, 100
cartoons of Maggi, 100 bags of salt and 5000 bundles of pure water that were distributed.
AWOL supported the government and victims of the September 2015 flood in Freetown with clothes
and food items worth over 50 million Leones.
The recent mudslide incident in Sierra Leone has seen hundreds of people died and as many injured
and homeless. Some have been temporarily relocated to make-shift shelters.
AWOL has made some cash donations to assist the government in its time of need. However, as the
country at large is at its most vulnerable, we are mobilizing towards helping families affected by this
very tragic disaster. Our next immediate priority will be to provide temporary shelters, clothing,
clean drinking water, food, hygiene kits and household essentials. With your support, we want to
provide victims with immediate support and help with the displaced and bereaved. We have also
donated the sum of Le 150 million.
