Service For Peace-Sierra Leone (SFP-S/L) is a non profit making, and a non-governmental organization for volunteers, that was established by two youth activists in 2007. After the international Global Peace Makers Conference 2008 in Abidjan, the organization gained its full legal status from the government of the Ministry of Social Welfare Gender, and Children’s’ Affairs.

However, Sierra Leone has just come from 11 years civil conflict, which destroyed most of the country’s social-economic and physical infrastructure and that lay a class of marginalized young people especially from rural areas, lacking education and access to livelihood opportunities. Realizing that many of the youth communities in the Sierra Leone lack positive alternatives to violence and positive adult mentors and role models. The major purpose of SFP-Sierra Leone is to provide youth in Sierra Leone, particularly young people living at risk areas, with an alternative to violence, establish an environment where young people of different cultures and races can work together, involve these young people in service learning activities that promote peace and non-violence and provide them with good-natured role models.

In another development, Service For Peace - Sierra Leone organized the 40 Days of Peace and, the Global Youth Service Day in five (5) secondary schools which aimed at promoting peace and non-violence in schools and youth participation in decision making processes. We engaged community stakeholders and youth led organizations in five (5) communities in a forum in order to discuss about the furtherance of the Millennium Development Goals in the country. Additionally, we organized the International Day of Peace and the International Day of Democracy (IDD in collaboration with Democracy Sierra Leone (DSL), the African Child’s Day and the International Day of Poverty in partnership with the Global Call Against Poverty (GCAP) and also the World Aids Day in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Youth Network on HIV/AIDS.

Meanwhile, Realizing the need for improving communities in Sierra Leone, Service For Peace - Sierra Leone has expanded in to three districts namely Makeni, Moyamba and Bo district respectively, introducing people of all ages to the rewarding experience of bringing renewal to their communities and nation building through service, learning, leadership development, and sustainable improvements./p>

Country Background

Sierra Leone is a small republic (71.470 sq.km) located in the Southwestern part of the West African coast between Guinea and Liberia. It is subdivided into Western Area, which is the Metropolitan Areas and three provinces (Eastern, Northern and Southern): These three are subdivided into 12 districts that contain 149 chiefdoms. Aside from provincial and District Headquarter Towns, urban settlements are few, the environment is predominantly rural.

For the size of the country, the number of ethnic groups is large. Among a total of eighteen ethnic groups the largest are the Temnes in the North and the Mendes in the South. Others include the Creole Limba, Susu, Fullah, Lokko, Kissi, Sherbro, Creole Koranko, Mandingo, Gallinese, Vai, Kroo, Krims and Yalunka.

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