On the 24th of September 2016, learning materials, uniforms and shoes were distributed to the 50 Ebola orphans and the 4 Ebola survivors supported by the Hope For Tomorrow Programme. The rucksacks contained exercise books and pencils. The children had also been previously fitted for shoes and were given these together with a pair of socks.

The exercise was overseen by the Project Manager, Mrs Marion Morgan, ably assisted by Ms Mabinty Kamara, the Project Coordinator and other local staff and volunteers, including Andrew Hatzis from CEB Global. Two of our trustees, Trudy Morgan and Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr were also present and had the opportunity to encourage the children and their caregivers. It was a fun event and the children had an enjoyable time.

More pictures at:http://www.slwt.org/back_to_school.htm

Along with a series of events to mark the 1st anniversary of the end of the Ebola outbreak declaration in Sierra Leone, SLWT is launching its Hope For Tomorrow appeal. This campaign will raise funds to support the orphans that SLWT has committed to care for until they finish school. We would like to encourage you to either donate to our fund or create your own fundraising event for SLWT. We would therefore like to declare 'November for SLWT ' where we would encourage you to raise funds on our behalf.

To this end, 3 SLWT trustees, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Trudy Morgan and Renee Horton-Spring will be taking part in a 5Km event in Sierra Leone on the 7th of November to raise funds for SLWT.

You can support them at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Yvonne-Aki-Sawyerr3

You can get some ideas for your own event at: https://www.fundraising.com/ideas/fundraising-ideas

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/raise-more/fundraising-tips.jsp

Set up your fundraising page at: http://campaign.justgiving.com/charity/slwt/hopefortomorrow

Make a donation to our appeal: http://campaign.justgiving.com/charity/slwt/hopefortomorrow

We look forward to your participation.

SLWT will be holding one of our fabulous evenings on Saturday 19th November 2016 at The Fable,52 Holborn Viaduct,London, ECA1 2FD.

At this event, SLWT will also launch its Sponsor-A-Child program. We currently support 50 children who became orphans as a result of the Ebola crisis. A donation of £25 a month would all go directly to looking after that child's needs.

Featuring musically will be Singology and De Champ & Co.

Tickets for this event can be purchased at :

http://www.slwt.org/news_events.htm#jazz_night

Andrew Hatzis, was sponsored by his company CEB global to spend a week volunteering for SLWT in Sierra Leone. Andrew’s trip had three objectives:

• Help review operational processes in SLWT (SL) offices
• Collect content to help launch our sponsor-a-child project in the UK 
• Feedback on Hope For Tomorrow (HFT) project as a 3rd party observer

Andrew  spent a week  with SLWT in Waterloo, getting to meet our staff and volunteers. He photographed each of the 54 children that SLWT is currently supporting to help promote our sponsor-a-child programme to be launched at our Jazz event on the 19th of November 2016.

Andrew also helped to organise and participated in the back-to-school distribution event, already mentioned above, held at the end of his week’s stay.  In fact, he literally left that event to go to the airport.  He got to meet all the children and their caregivers and certainly made a lot of new friends.

SLWT would like to thank CEB Global for their support and Andrew’s account of his trip will be in our next newsletter and on our website when it’s published.