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The Needy Today

Kissy , Sierra Leone

The Needy Today came as a result of what happen with the children in Sierra Leone environments. During the war children were separated from their families and now orphaned and abandoned in the street. The Needy Today Sierra Leone is a registered charity agency at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs with the aims to address the basic needs of war, economical and social affected children. The Needy Today will sponsor such children and meets their daily basic needs through finding foster parents to responsible for them.
The eleven years rebel conflict coursed the death of many people. The worst victims are the children in Freetown Eastern area – Western Area of Sierra Leone. Most children lost their parents and are now orphans while some are abandoned in the street and at high social risks. These orphans have no one to care for them. As a result the target beneficiaries of this programme are the orphans and street children in the Freetown East area of the Western Area of Sierra Leone.

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We are currently preparing to start a non-formal schooling for 150 children, if the funds are available.

Children Assistance Programme

Child sponsorship

There are many children in Sierra Leone who, through many factors, have been orphaned, abandoned, or separated from their families. The past protracted civil war further disfranchised many people and robbed children of their homes and family resources. Many children lack proper food, clothing, shelter and fees for education. For these children, financial assistance may be beneficial in order to ensure that the child can be educated and grow to become a responsible and self-sufficient adult.

The primary goal of the Child Sponsorship Programme is to help provide economic assistance to children who have been orphaned, abandoned or separated from their families and are at high social risks due to extreme hardship, war, and poverty. The purpose of the assistance is to prevent the child from further abandonment and suffering or living on the streets for basic survival. The monthly assistance provided would be in the form of food staples, clothing, medical care and educational expenses for children identified as being at risk. An effort would be made to identify street children with families living in the locality that can be reunited with their families through assistance.

The Needy Today long-term goal is to provide education and opportunities to help these identified children eventually establish their own means of self- support in adulthood. This will help to foster positive self-esteem for the children by encouraging self-sufficiency. The Child Sponsorship Programme will be designed to provide foster families, educational fees, and provide monthly assistance for poverty stricken children in the programme, as it is the desire of The Needy Today Sierra Leone to provide avenues for long-term self-support.

Programme For Foster Care And Adoption

Sierra Leone is faced with many critical situations regarding the well being of children, especially war orphans. The Needy Today Sierra Leone believes that the overriding principle in child welfare policy is the best interest of the child. The guiding conviction is the importance of a family in a child’s life. The love, care and affection that a child receives in their own family, are more intense than elsewhere. Orphans, while deprived of their biological family, nevertheless are in need of a permanent family in which to grow. If an extended family system is not available to them, the next priority becomes care by non-relatives in the form of foster care and adoption. In this case, intercountry adoption is one avenue that can afford an orphan child permanent family structure that is vitally needed for a child’s health and well being. It is the belief of The Needy Today that institutional care should only be used as a last resort for orphaned children.

The goal of The Needy Today Sierra Leone is to work with the Sierra Leonean government, Legal offices, Embassies, NGOs, INGOs, Missions and agencies for the welfare of orphaned infants or children who are in immediate need of intensive living care, and who need a long-term plan involving permanent placement in a family for their best future. The Needy Today Sierra Leone considers long-term institutional care a last resort and prefers to assist these infants/children through temporary, transitional care while at the same time developing a plan for a permanent, loving family environment in which the children will grow and flourish or place them in orphanages. Infants or children accepted into care are being placed in temporary foster homes and given the financial support necessary to provide all the milk, food, clothing, shelter, medical care, love and nurture necessary to ensure their survival and growth.. Efforts will be focused on promoting national and international adoption for those children who will best be helped through adoption.