Mar 17 2007
Project Hope – Sierra Leone
Project Description 
This project is envisaged to help orphans and disabled people, and also geared towards the provision of basic education and vocational training opportunities for the disabled and orphans, within Western area and the Country at large.
It is also intended to facilitate skill training development for child combatant, and children who are forced to drop out of school because of war or poverty. To provide educational facilities for children free of charge and to reach out to the lost who need the word of God to console them from their traumatic states by way of evangelism and counseling in Freetown as well as the entire country.
The Republic of Sierra Leone is a small country, approximately the size of South Carolina. The capital Freetown is located in the northwest region.
In 2007 the population was estimated to be 6,144,562. Almost half of the population is less than 14 years of age. Of that number approximately half are females. 52% of the population is 15-64 years of age, with slighty more of those being female. Life expectancy for men is 39 years of age and for women, 42 years.
The country fell into civil war in 1991. More than a decade of brutal violence resulted in approximately 50,000 deaths and the displacement of more than 2 million people, approximately 1/3 of the population.
Sierra Leone is an extremely poor nation with tremendous inequality in income distribution. While it possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery resources, its economic and social infrastructure is not well developed, and serious social disorders continue to hamper economic development. About 2/3 of the working-age population engages in subsistence agriculture.
The fate of the economy largely depends upon the maintenance of domestic peace and aid from abroad.
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