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About Us
Alliance for women’s Development, Sierra Leone Chapter (AWOD-SL) is a Non- Governmental Charitable and voluntary organization registered and established in 2013 aim at promoting peace, equality, and empowering to improve socio- economic status of the underprivileged and disadvantaged community women, adolescent and youth. Over the time the work of AWOD has grown to include a focus on access to health, education basic rights, Sexual and Reproductive health and mental health. AWOD highlight the human rights issues of adolescent, youth, women and key population as this profile group of society found to be neglected and disregarded of their contributions and strengths. There is absence of involvement of adolescent, youth and young women in decision / policy making as well as lack of education / awareness regarding health, social and legal, Human right issues, while discriminatory laws and social customs against women hinders them to enhance their self-growth and enjoy equal status in the society. Within the framework of the thought of the founder and realizing the fact that most women in Sierra Leone are still undergoing social inequalities ranging from gender-specific abortions, mistreatment from their spouses, teasing, being married off at an early age and in some cases being denied an education by their families, whilst some take into commercial sex work out of harsh economic or moral reasons, AWOD-SL aim at soliciting resources to change the mind-set and status of target population.
Mision
We offer safe, respectful, free-of-judgment spaces for adolescent, youth and young women in the sex trade, drug addict, survivors and street economies to recognize their goals, dreams and desires through community engagement, psycho social, rehabilitation and sustainable skill support.  
Vision
Our vision is to create an understanding and acceptable global village with a single focus of making the world an enabling environment for every adolescent, youth and women

Our Objectives

Objective I

Capacity development: Develop the capacity of youth, adolescent and young women through counselling, conscious learning, and sustainable skills.

Objective II

SMART Advocacy: Advocate for dignity and access to justice and health facilities for youth, adolescent and young women including those living with HIV/AID.

Objective III

Community engagement on reproductive health, protection, rights, and responsibilities of youth, adolescents, and young women.

Our Developmental Partners

  • Purposeful

  • National Aid Secretariat

  • Marie Stopes

  • UNAIDS

  • Aberdeen Women Centre

  • UNICEF

  • UNDP

  • Handicap International

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  • Category: Business
  • Service Duration: 02:30 Hours
  • Address: 4B Bambara Town, Kissy Mess-Mess, Freetown, Sierra Leone. (Map)
  • More Info: +23276744245/+23231744245
  • Price:250€
 

Features

 Goal

To organize adolescent, youth and young women into groups and build their capacity so that they can play vital role as “Change Agent” to bring sustainable development in their communities.

 Focus

Community engagement, Outreaches, Counselling, Monitoring and Advocacy on issues affecting youth, adolescent boys & girls and young women most especially adolescent sex workers.

 Our Values

♦Networking & Partnership ♦Transparency ♦Mutual Respect

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Contact

  • 4B Bambara Town, Kissy Mess-Mess, Freetown Sierra Leone

Our Team

Jack Hendrix

President

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Elizabeth Newman

Partner

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Lucy Lennon

Office manager

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Jennifer Smith

C.E.O

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Areas of Concerns

Gender Base Violence

Gender Base Violence

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Adolescent Reproductive Health and Rights

Adolescent Reproductive Health and Rights

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Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment

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Integrated programme for street & working adolescent

Integrated programme for street & working adolescent

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Heath: Mental Health, HIV / AIDS and STDs etc.

Heath: Mental Health, HIV / AIDS and STDs etc.

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Education

Education

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Our Strategy

Participatory Planning and Implementation

Participatory Planning and Implementation

06.05.2020

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Target Intervention

Target Intervention

04.03.2020

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Capacity- Building through NGO, CBO and self- help groups

Capacity- Building through NGO, CBO and self- help groups

06.02.2020

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Life skills empowering Programme

Life skills empowering Programme

06.02.2020

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Networking with likeminded organization

Networking with likeminded organization

06.02.2020

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Influencing policies and advocacy.

Influencing policies and advocacy.

06.02.2020

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Activities

Capacity development

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Advocacy

Advocacy

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Community Engagement

Community Engagement

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Past Experiences

06.05.2020

Running Programmes

Running a counselling and referrals programs for Drug addicts, survivors, patient of HIV&AIDS and Alcoholic at our head office and safe spaces spots since September, 2018. Alcoholism and drug addiction is a disease and for that abstinence is the best way to manage the condition. Our approach is holistic, working with mind, body and spirit targeting a complete turned around in behaviours and attitudes of our beneficiaries putting them on the path of a healthy and worthwhile life . Running six (6) safe space running for in and out of school adolescent girls in their communities giving them information on Human rights, Domestic violence, Mental health, SRH, HIV and AIDS and a lot more is done on a weekly basis. Implementing Vocational Skill Training Project at Susan’s Bay, Moa Warf, DockYard and Kanikay communities since 2019 to 2022 ,Training has been given on art & craft, bead work, fashion design, driving and Make-up artist (since 2019) in which 120 beneficiaries have been covered in both trades. Most of passed out learners have formed Self Help Group and engaged in after completion of training, some of the learners have opened their own business and some of them have placed in business centres.

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03.03.2020

Programme Implemented

Awareness Programmes on Aim to reduce teens childbearing, gender base violence, SRH, substance abuse to protect their health and increase educational life skills achievement amongst adolescent’s girls. Girls Circle clubs has been formed by the organization for conducting safe space session. Girls has given name to their clubs as Power for girls and Value4Her funded by purposeful 2018-2022. Research Study on the assessment of the situation sexually exploited adolescent girls and young boys in the sex trade and development of a gender charter in Sierra Leone funded by UNAIDS 2021. Bring empowerment and direct sustainability ‘’BEADS’ supported by 16 days activism awareness campaigns and sessions on major Issues like Health Education, Mental health, Domestic violence, HIV& AIDS, through football gallery supported by Restless Development Sierra Leone 2016. HIV Sero-prevalence study for key population to determine the HIV prevalence among sierra Leone’s key population supported by UNAIDS and NAS 2015. Awareness programs to engage women, especially female sex workers (FSWs) to help in the fight to eradicate Ebola with the Theme ‘Leave No One Behind-Empowering Female sex workers to cope with Ebola and HIV’ funded by handicap international Sierra Leone National Aids secretariats NAS,UNICEF,UNDP 2014.

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06.02.2020

Capacity

We comprises of a multi- disciplinary team of social science experts, Counsellors , health personals and dedicated team of community level workers and peer educator, who are the integral part of our community based intervention, created both at urban and rural areas. AWOD-SL is consist of the headquarter office in Freetown with five (5) staffs, Two (2) district offices (Bo, Makeni and Portloko –Lungi) with one District Coordinator and 2 Field staff per district office.

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