Variety Children and Family
Donation
Young women and girls who were on the street, now attending classes in hair dressing

Community Services
Young women and girls who were on the street, now attending classes in hair dressing

The effects of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone between 1991 – 2002 dislodged the ambition of several young girls from school. As thousands of young girls dropped out of school due to the civil war, they had no other option but to engage themselves in commercial sex and drugs. Seeing the plights of these young girls and the psychological implication to the country, Variety decided to open an institution for hair dressing to get them out of the streets. In collaboration with YMCA and Save the Chidren’s Fund, we were able to train over 200 young women in three years. The course lasted for 12 months and on graduating , each graduate was given a startup kits to start her own salon. This effort made hundred s of these young girls self-reliant and out of the streets.