SMART Women's Initiative
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • What We Do
    • Meet our Team
  • Blog
    • Poems
    • Survivors Journey
    • Gallery
  • Contact
  • DONATE

OUR PROJECTS

SHE MATTERS

In a country like Sierra Leone where hearing and speech impaired persons are seen as voiceless, we teach people to know that communication does not only mean verbal but different expressions like signing, body & hands movement as well as facial. 

We are training more people sign language in order to bridge the communication gap between hearing persons and hearing impaired. 


Our target is to train 10,000 Sierra Leoneans sign language nationwide with specific focus on major institutions like the medical, legal, security, and other key institutions.


Here's a link to support this project https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=9A7QDDGWLK32N

HER STORY

Every person deserves to be heard! Every girl has a story. A girl lives in every woman. These stories have the tendency to make or break us. SWI amplifies it! We tell the stories - survivors should be heard therefore we listen, learn, live and create a change.

Our Programs

Psychosocial counseling & reintegration

Community Engagement & Awareness Raising

Community Engagement & Awareness Raising

We offer survivor-centered approach counseling by allowing survivors to lead the conversation, rebuild trust and co-create safe spaces to re-live, tell their truth and heal with dignity. Survivors are reintegrated into homes if the need arises but prior to the reintegration, families are also supported through our group counseling as well as teach ways on how they could support the healing of survivors rather than inflicting blame, shame & stigma. We are the first and only in Sierra Leone that provides free sign language psychosocial counseling.

Community Engagement & Awareness Raising

Community Engagement & Awareness Raising

Community Engagement & Awareness Raising

We mobilize our team every quarter to make a real difference by embarking on door to door sensitization and awareness on the effect of gender-based violence, provision of first aid psychosocial counseling and referrals. Including volunteers, our community engagement team comprises medical and legal practitioners, social workers and survivors.

SMART Voices School Clubs

Community Engagement & Awareness Raising

SMART Voices School Clubs

With five school clubs in Freetown rural, members of SMART Voices are mentored by nurturing their leadership abilities, making them solutionist to community problems whilst educating them on gender-based violence, ways of seeking redress - responsive and preventive measures. They always emerge as champions of change as they demonstrate solidarity, co-create mechanisms and outreach strategies of spreading the messages of hope and encourage young survivors to speak out, access the necessary services including justice. SMART Voices members benefit from various life skills training to help disrupt the mindset of waiting to be employ rather build up their financial independency at a young age.

Advocacy

Education/Inclusive Learning

SMART Voices School Clubs

Education/Inclusive Learning

Education/Inclusive Learning

Education/Inclusive Learning

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