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Friends of Good Shepherd Home

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  • Charity no. 105866
  • Date registered. 22/12/2016

Public benefits

To help support, care for and provide funding for the children in The Good Shepherd Home, which will enhance the lives of the children in preparation for a better furtherance awareness of the plight of the children’s home by encouraging gifts (financial and otherwise), seek out help (financial and otherwise). To hold art exhibitions and film

evenings, which will help fund clothing, educational materials, maintain teachers and provide anything necessary for the improvement of the home and the children in the home. To encourage communication with the kids from Northern Ireland to become pen pals, which will broaden their outlook and encourage lifelong friendships. At present, we have bought land and build the school that is in full running funding of GSH has been solely on individual donations and fundraising. The organisations used the funding to pay the teachers so that the students go to school free. Furthermore, through the funding the organisations provide free school meal, stationaries, uniforms and administrative activities. However, in 2009 there was a tragic blow when the founder suddenly passed away. The economic downturn has also affected the organisation progression of projects immensely. Sustainability is imperative, for the achievement of the organisational vision and mission. The only foreseeable harm will be if we do not have funds to support our charitable course. Our beneficiaries are deprived vulnerable children in Kenema Sierra Leone West Africa. Response to address educational needs and hopelessness, for children, young adults, girls, is to bring about independence leading to positive change that affects their lives and their community. At present, the school is running, and some of the children have taken their public exams which are a big attainment for the country standard.

What your organisation does

The organisation has been funding by friends and family individually. Special fundraising invent where we execute African craft and painting done by the beneficiaries. The revenue has been used to buy land and build the school to date than pay teachers so the beneficiaries may have free education.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Ex-offenders and prisoners
  • Hiv/aids
  • Homelessness
  • Interface communities
  • Learning disabilities
  • Men
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Overseas/developing countries
  • Physical disabilities
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Victim support
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Disability
  • Education/training
  • Environment/sustainable development/conservation
  • Relief of poverty
  • Welfare/benevolent
  • Youth development

Charitable purposes

The organisation is established to relieve the needs and poverty of the community, and in particular children and young people under the age of 25, (“the beneficiaries”) in Sierra Leone, West Africa particularly those in the Good Shepherd Home, Kenema (“the area of benefit”) through the provision of financial assistance and voluntary work, and in particular: (a) to advance the education and to promote, preserve and protect the health of the beneficiaries in the area of benefit through the provision of facilities and equipment; (b) to relieve poverty and hunger in the field of interest by any charitable means and in particular through the provision of food, clothing, care and grants; (c) to relieve sickness, malnutrition and disease among the beneficiaries through the provision or assistance in the provision of medical facilities and by the provision of advice, information and financial support for the costs of care and the provision of items and services required to ease their suffering; (d) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the Trustees may from time to time decide in accordance with the law of charity in Northern Ireland.

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List of regions

  • Internationally
  • Sierra Leone

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