06/03/2025
Sierra Leone Day
On Saturday the 22nd of February 2025, the Second Edition of the Sierra Leone Day meeting took place at the Wilde Ganzen office in Amersfoort. It was an interactive and a productive meeting. We had a presentation from (Piet Houtenbos of SEHH/SHF) on Family life education. We gained a reflective insight from Esly based on her visit to Sierra Leone. The meeting was inclusive with diverse participants who are currently engaged in different sectors in Sierra Leone.
The Second Edition of this meeting was a follow-up meeting to discussed the progress that has been made and the ongoing developments. Among the participants were representatives from various Foundations, Organizations, private initiatives, and individuals involved in developmental projects in Sierra Leone, and potential private initiatives towards Sierra Leone.
Recently, Sierra Leone has been featured in different foreign media with coverage mainly focused on the country's negative impacts related to drugs.
However, The Sierra Leone Day meeting was different. It was about hope, innovation, reflection, private initiatives, entrepreneurship, networking and working together, on how to combat the challenges faced by the country, especially to break the cycle of poverty and the access to education.
It was great engaging with some of these philanthropists, community of practice and global citizens, who are trying to collaborate, assist, support, like some of us are already doing, in order to alleviate the level of poverty in different ways.
It was a very productive day.
For more information about our foundation Stichting Hope for All (de eerste stap) and how to support, please visit our website.
https://hopeforallfoundation.nl/
Sierra Leone Tafel
Namens Stichting Hope for All heb ik de Sierra Leone middagbijeenkomst bijgewoond. Deze vond plaats op zaterdag 22 februari 2025 op het kantoor van Wilde Ganzen in Amersfoort. Het was de tweede bijeenkomst en het programma was interactief. Er werd teruggeblikt op de reis van Esly naar Sierra Leone, en er was ruimte om elkaar te leren kennen en te netwerken. De bijeenkomst was bedoeld voor stichtingen, particuliere initiatieven, organisaties en individuen die betrokken zijn bij Sierra Leone.
Het land komt vaak in het nieuws door negatieve berichten over drugsgerelateerde kwesties. Toch bood deze dag ook hoop. Het was mooi om te zien hoe mensen, organisaties en individuen die nog steeds in het land geloven, zich met hart en ziel inzetten om particuliere initiatieven te ondersteunen in verschillende sectoren.
We hebben kennis gedeeld en ervaringen uitgewisseld met initiatieven, stichtingen en organisaties die al actief zijn in Sierra Leone, en met anderen die bereid zijn om daar aan de slag te gaan. Als community of practice hebben we ook kennis en ervaringen gedeeld over verschillende thema’s.
Het was een geslaagde dag. Voor meer informatie over onze stichting Hope for All (de eerste stap) en hoe je kunt bijdragen, zie de onderstaande website.
https://hopeforallfoundation.nl/