April- June Newsletter,2012, 1,1

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Business Development Services

(BDS), to alleviate Poverty

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News from Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra Leone September 2011

Hands Up!

As part of the Demand-Driven approach to reduce

poverty in Sierra Leone, Hands Empowering the

Less Privileged in Sierra Leone (HELP-SL) has

started a six month Small and Medium Enterprise

(SME) project entitled: Provision of Business

Development Services to Small-Medium Enterprisewith financial support from the United Nations

Development Programme (UNDP).

The main objective of the project is to promote

income generation and reduce poverty through

business development and financial services for 600

young people in Bo, Bonthe, Moyamba, Tonkolili

and Pujehun districts.

The BDS project will target six hundred young

people between the ages of 15-35 in Bo, Moyamba,

Bonthe, Pujehun and Tonkolili districts who have

the desire and willingness to build small or medium

enterprises to improve and sustain their livelihood.

The HELP-BDS will implement the project in

collaboration with some like-minded organizations

including GIZ, ICCO, AFFORD and Restless

Development as key partners.

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Business Development Services (BDS)1

HELP-SL Youth enterprise & Livelihood development.2

Hygiene Promotion survey in Pujehun ..

Natural Leaders Training..

Another ODF Celebration in Tonkolili district5

One of the main project activities includes the

development of a Business Resource Centre

where all information on issues pertaining to

business formation, management, training and

mentorship will be provided to prospective

applicants.

Orientation for HELP- BDS staff

Another facility of the project is the creation and

use of radio programmes to educate the genera

populace about the various services.

According to HELP-SL Chief Executive Office

(C.E.O) Siaffa Jobson Momoh, this project wil

serve as a vehicle for change in terms of creating

jobs and accessing financial support for smal

scale business holders in HELP-SLs operationa

districts across the country.

Notes from the field work of Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra Leone


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As skill-building forms the back bone of youth

entrepreneurial development, HELP-SL has providedimpact-oriented, innovative, and sustainable skillstraining in basic business development for roughly

three thousand youth in Bo, Kenema, Kono, Makeni,and Freetown.

Using the participatory approach of Street Kids

Internationals Street Business Toolkit (SBTK),trainees learned basic business concepts, what itmeans to be an entrepreneur, and how to identify and

create profitable business ventures.

One of the briefing sessions with the beneficiaries about the project

Addressing participants in Bo, SBTK Master Trainer,

Abass Chernor Bah, stated that the goal of the

training is not to transform all youth intoentrepreneurs, but rather to expose participants tothe knowledge and skills necessary for creating a solid

business concept and turning that idea into a reality.

This training formed part of the selection criteria for

the first phase of the two years World Bank supported

project: Provision of Skills Development and

Employment Support to Urban Youth with some

Secondary education.

Youth engaged in economic activity in one of the selected TEVECs in Bo,

South of Sierra Leone

HELP-SL YOUTH ENTERPRISE & LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Cross section of targeted beneficiaries intraining session

One of the TEVECs in Freetown, capital city, Sierra Leone


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HYGIENE PROMOTION SURVEY IN PUJEHUN DISTRICT

One of the hand pumps to rehabilitatePeople responding to their present sanitation status

One of the hand pumps to rehabilitate

In a stride to continue improving access to

sustainable safe drinking water in Sierra Leone,

Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra

Leone (HELP-SL) has concluded a baseline survey

in ten communities in the Sowa and Kpanga

Karbondeh chiefdoms, Pujehun district.

The purpose of the survey was to know the

present status of water and sanitation facilities inselected communities that have already achieved

Open Defecation Free (ODF) status.

With this information, HELP-SL will be able to

ensure that the communities receive appropriate

support through the Improving Sanitation and

Decentralized Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

(WASH) project, funded by Water Aid.

Pointing to stream used for all domestic purposes including

drinking

The WASH project aims to construct and

rehabilitate water wells and hand pumps where

necessary.

This is done in line with the general objective o

promoting and increasing access to clean and safe

drinking water, health and sanitation facilities

across Sierra Leone.

HELP-SL received the project based on its vast

experience gained through implementing the

Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in

Communities and Schools, Sanitation and Hygiene

Education (SSHE) projects throughout the country.

CLTS latrine in Baoma Timmi


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Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra

Leone (HELP-SL) believes that community-ledapproaches have great potential to make a

lasting, quality and sizeable impact on the

Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) projectat both national and community levels.

This statement was made by HELP-SL, Human

Security Manager, Gassimu Mallah, at the three-day Natural Leaders Training.

The training focused on CLTS concepts and themethodology in performing triggering exercises.

In addition, CLTS is about making Open

Defecation (OD) communities achieve OpenDefecation Free (ODF) status. Mr. Mallahmaintained that CLTS uses a self-realization

approach, through triggering exercises, tocapture the communitys willingness andinvolvement to attain the safe sanitation

environment.

This can be achieved by people constructing

their own latrines with hand washing facilities

using local building materials in most cases heconcluded.

According to the Human Security Assistant

Programme Manager, Solomon Kassibo, Natural

Leaders are self-motivated people who

volunteer to help improve on sanitation in their

different localities followin tri erin .

CLTS INVOLVES MORE COMMUNITIES IN THE PUJEHUN

DISTRICT

Displayed of CLTS concept in brief

These Natural Leaders or community consultantsare critical in the success and sustainability of CLTS.

They can be identified during the triggering processby their enthusiasm and motivation to end open

defecation in the community.

Throughout the three-day training, participants

discussed in detailed the following steps incommunity triggering;

1. Pre-triggering: as the first approach to

trigger community for their involvement,2. Triggering: the actual triggering exercise to

create sanitation awareness

3. Post-triggering: the follow-up stage to ensure

participatory and sustainability in positivesanitation practices. Other issues looked atare the dos anddonts

Participants learning the techniques in doing effective triggering

The aged and youth determined to change their Open Defecation

communities


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Open Defecation Free (ODF) ceremony in Tane Chiefdom

On April 26, 2012, HELP-SL celebrated the achievementsof fifty-one communities that have attained Open

Defecation Free (ODF) status.

The celebration was held in Makona Village, Tane

Chiefdom, Tonkolili district, North of Sierra Leone, and

was attended by members of the local community, thehealth ministry, Tonkolili district council, and UNICEF.

The celebration was also attended by other keystakeholders including the Medical Superintendent,

North, Tane Chiefdom Speaker, Chief Dauda Gbla andRepresentative from Cotton Tree Foundation (CTF).

The Community Led Total Sanitation project started by

HELP-SL in 2010 with the support of UNICEF.HELP-SL

Human Security Manager, Gassimu Mallah said theimportance of the CLTS project is to inspire communities

using an open defecation system to achieve ODF statusby constructing their own latrines using local materials.

The approach is largely based on community willingness

and motivation after pre-triggering and triggering not on

subsidies Mallah added.

It is hope that the CLTS approach, backed with massive

health and education interventions of how to maintainODF status and access to safe drinking water, will helpensure good health, water and sanitation facilities.

The official declaration was done by the Tonkolili district

Council CLTS Taskforce Coordinator John Lakoh-

Duramanie.

Children and adults celebrating their ODF achievement

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HELP- Sierra Leone!

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Bo, Sierra Leone

+232 33 127325

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[email protected]

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