Saidu Kanu, WHI’s Sierra Leone Country Director was honored as the Outstanding International NGO Leader of the Year by the African Consulting Groups.
“We will train the children to know their rights and to know that their bodies belong to them. We will also teach the elders in their community…”
Children living with disabilities had the opportunity to participate in a 2-hour soccer training session at the National Stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone…
Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed observed that women and girls living with disabilities suffer the “double discrimination” of sex and disability, and Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) pointed out that children…
It is powerful that a person in a position of authority – a man, no less – has, in this declaration of national emergency, essentially told them that “what has happened to you is not okay and we’re going to do something to respond to that.”