Sierra Leone Foundation

	Geography Sierra Leone is situated on the west coast of Africa between latitudes 10° and 13° west and longitudes 7 and 100 north, and covers an area of some 71,620 km2. To the west and southwest its Atlantic coastline extends for almost 400 km. The country shares its north and northeastern border with the Republic of Guinea, and its southeastern border with Liberia. Sierra Leone possesses a tropical and humid climate, with a clearly defined rainy season. Annual rainfall averages about 380 cm (150 inches) in Freetown, decreasing inland to about 200 cm (80 inches) in the north of the country. Most of the rain falls between July and September. There are mangrove swamps amps along the coast but most of the country is covered with dense secondary forest or bush, and over large areas the land surface comprises residual laterite. or detrital material. The country possesses numerous streams and rivers.
	Broadly speaking, the western half of Sierra Leone comprises a large plain, while the eastern half consists of a number of elevated plateaux rising to a maximum height of 1,950 m (6,390ft) above sea-level at Bintumani in the Loma Mountains. The plain comprises a 50 km wide coastal belt composed of marine or deltaic sediments running parallel to the coast, and a continental belt stretching some 95 km inland from the coastal plain, underlain by rocks of the 01(1 continental land mass.

SIERRA LEONE FOUNDATION MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT

Mission Statement
We would work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental health problems in Sierra Leone. Guided by the hopes and views of the Sierra Leone people, we hope to pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people we are serving deserve nothing less.

Sierra Leone Foundation’s mental health Project is about providing drugs, guidance, and therapy, canceling, raising awareness and respect for people suffering from mental health problems

The aims of the mental health project are:

To provide drugs, canceling and therapy to those experiencing mental health problems

To provide emotional support for the families and carers of people experiencing mental health problems.

To raise awareness and respect for people with mental illness and their families

Improve education and training of mental health workers, and secure better services for people with mental illness.

To influence policy in the best interests of those who experience mental distress or face mental health problems.

To Campaign on a wide range of issues, reflecting the breadth of mental health provision, and try to ensure that issues relating to mental health needs are addressed as effectively as possible.

Target Group
The project will focus mainly on treating, helping and caring for people with moderate to less severe forms of mental health problems in all the six towns with a concentration of people with mental health problems. Up to 10,000 people of these categories will be targeted in the life of the project

Timetable
The project will take place over five years. It would start in April 2010 and end in March 2015.

Cost of the project
The total cost of the project is £1,585,950, spread out for five years.

Year 1: £351,950 / Year 2: £319,500 / Year 3: £309,500 / Year 4: £304,500 / Year 5: £300,500

Donations
Please donate generously towards this worthy cause. Why? Because in Sierra Leone, it is estimated that up to 40% of the five million people in the country remained traumatized by the ten years civil war (1991-2001) and require psychiatric help. Unfortunately, the country has only one trained psychiatrist, and only one mental hospital. Only the very disturbed may be admitted – so for the many people suffering from moderate to less severe mental illness, there is no where else to go, except to witch doctors or left to wonder about in the streets. Sierra Leone Foundation needs your help to implement this project.

Please send your cheques to Mental Health Project, Sierra Leone Foundation, Office Suite 6, RISC BUILDING, 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS United Kingdom. Or pay your donation into Barclays Bank, King Street, Reading, RG1 2HD, United Kingdom. Sort Code 20-71-06, Account Number 30541621

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THE MOBILE HEALTH CLINIC AND SANITATION PROGRAMME

This project seeks to address fundamental health issues:

The malaria and common ailments that may result to serious problems.

Reducing fatalities resulting from fake drugs and untrained and unqualified medics locally known as ‘pepper doctors’.

Sierra Leone is in the RED zone of malaria belt in the world. The programme has a sanitation component embedded in it. This means a clinical session is followed by basic hands-on sanitation practices or media campaign using audio and video resources. A pilot unit will be trialled in every district including the rural areas bordering the capital city, Freetown. One mobile unit is estimated at £10,000 (Sterling) and serving a 40 miles radius would require an average of £1000 (Sterling) annually.

Donors to this programme should send donation, marked ‘Mobile Clinic and Sanitation Programme’ Sierra Leone Foundation.:
Bank: Barclays, Reading UK
Sort Code 20 71 06
Account Number: 30541621

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