We Yone Child Foundation (WYCF)
6 Sumaila Town, 1st floor off Pademba Road Prison
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Contact person: Santigie Bayo Dumbuya
+232 (0) 77435212, +232 (0) 75334750
info@weyonechildfoundation.org
santigie@weyonechildfoundation.org
http://www.weyonechildfoundation.org/
https://www.facebook.com/We-Yone-Child-Foundation-135071513226799/?ref=page_internal
Topics
- Aid organization
- Educational policy/project
- Women's policy
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
We Yone Child Foundation (WYCF) was founded in 2009 by Santigie Bayo Dumbuya. Santigie decided to focus WYCF’s efforts on Kroo Bay and George Brook. We Yone’ means ‘our own’ in the locally spoken Krio language. It is the perfect description for the way we feel about the children we work for every day.
Our Vision
Educated children and empowered families to live in healthy, developed and integrated communities.
Our Mission
Provide sustainable education and care to underprivileged children and overcome the social and environmental problems that deepen and perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
WYCF’s strategic priorities up to 2025 are:
• High-quality primary schools;
• Access to secondary school;
• Equal opportunities for girls and women;
• Healthy families in healthy communities;
• Female empowerment and self-reliance.
Projects and Programs:
• Our schools: WYCF’s main ambition is to provide and maintain a safe, healthy and proper learning environment for our children. Our trusted and committed teachers follow the national curriculum. These activities are supported by the provision of teacher training, learning materials, stationary, voluntary teachers’ assistants, community committees, a growing library, Summer School and medical assistance when necessary.
• Child Protection: The most valuable tool we have created and implemented is our Child Files, which consist of a personal file for each child enrolled in our schools, gathering information about their living situation, including learning, housing, family and medical conditions.
• Seconadary School Scholarships: This programme was created to give all children graduating from WYCF primary schools a fair chance in continuing to pursue an education and enhance their life opportunities.
• Sport for Social Change: We are using the power of sport combined with education and life skills by creating sustainable opportunities for young people in communities where crime, violence against women and girls, and social exclusion are prevalence. With our Football, Martial Arts and Boxing we promote self-control, respect, discipline and provide young people with required supports to create positive futures for themselves through formal and informal education.
• Girls to Women Reusable Pads: WYCF believe that every menstruating girl and woman has the right to access information and safe, affordable, culturally appropriate and environment friendly products.
• Skill Training: We help women to access the work market through skill training, vocational courses and referrals to job opportunities through a network of partners in the private sector.
• Family Business Grants: Family Business Grants are meant to empower families to being accountable and responsible for their children’s education even after they graduate from WYCF schools.
• Equal Opportunities for Girls: WYCF is delivering a project emphasising the importance of girls’ education called ‘Teenage Pregnancy Reduction Pilot Programme.
• Community Outreach: Health & Hygiene sensitization; Sexual and Gender Based Violence sensitization
• Emergency Response
Santigie Bayo Dumbuya is the Founder & Director of We Yone Child Foundation (WYCF).
For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.
