Our new Quadrennial Project, Project SIerra: a Family and a Future, was launched at Convention in July 2007. The project will support women caring for children in extreme poverty and provide a caring secure family home for children who are alone or at risk of abandonment.
  Project location: Sierra Leone, West Africa
  Our partner: Hope and Homes for Children

Project Objectives
  Children aged 6 to 12 years who live on the streets will be helped to return home
  Very young mothers estranged from their families will be empowered to be active community members and where possible reintegrate with their families
  Families at risk of breakdown due to poverty, illness or death of one or both parents will be supported to self-sufficiency.

Support to each child and family will be individually tailored to meet their needs, including:
  education
  health care
  counseling and help to strengthen family ties
  securing safe living conditions
  economic support to help families move towards self-sufficiency
Project SIerra addresses all Soroptimist Program Areas and UN Millennium Development Goals.

New Project Resources
New resources are available to help Soroptimist advocacy and fundraising for Project SIerra:
  Project SIerra’s dedicated website www.projectSIerra.org has information and downloads. It will be regularly updated to be the main source of information about the project and Soroptimist involvement
  Soroptimist Club Protocol contains information about Project SIerra, our partner and ideas for advocacy and fundraising

Download the brochure (PDF format)

SI International Project Liaison
Contact Alison Sutherland at project.liaison@soroptimistinternational.org
to learn how you can support Project SIerra.

To find out more
Visit www.projectSIerra.org