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Since its establishment in Australia, AWOL Australia has been involved in a number of charitable initiatives, including funding the education of underprivileged and disabled Sierra Leoneans and providing ongoing scholarships to schoolchildren. We currently supporting the Escario Pascual School, an orphanage in Freetown near Waterloo, where we are also building a state-of-the-art library that will open soon.
Introduction
As a part of a global organization of Sierra Leoneans that upholds the “Put Salone Fos” ideology, AWOL Australia has always been committed to helping those in need in Sierra Leone. Since our founding in 2015, both independently and in conjunction with the AWOL Global community, AWOL Australia has participated in a multitude of charitable endeavors. We have extended our charitable efforts to include the terrible Ebola epidemic, government assistance, education and empowerment, and natural disaster victims.
Education& Empowerment
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.
The Day of the African Child
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.
Gondama Project
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.
Pandemic Disaster (Ebola)
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.
2015 Flooding
AWOL supported the government and victims of the September 2015 flood in Freetown with clothes and food items worth over 50 million Leones.
Flood and Mudslide
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.
Meaning All Works of Life, is AWOL. Take note of the second word’s spelling, Works; it’s not the same as the widely used cliché, all walks of life.
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