Disadvantaged Children and Youth
Forming part of GOAL's support to Children-at-Risk, the GOAL Disadvantaged Children and Youth Programme in Sierra Leone was designed to address the needs and rights of street-children, by providing them with a safe haven, shelter, food, non-formal education and alternative life choices.
GOAL works with communities in city slum areas to help prevent children from struggling families ending up on the street where they risk being exploited and falling into prostitution or child labour.
The poorest families, such as single-mother households, those with disabled caregivers, and those struggling on less than $0.70 a day, need help if their children are to remain at home.
GOAL-supported local child welfare committees work with youths from especially vulnerable families, referring some to GOAL and stepping in with the police, courts and elders to resolve incidents of abuse as they arise.
For more information on GOAL's work in Sierra Leone, click here.