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Business Development Services
(BDS), to alleviate Poverty
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News from Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra Leone September 2011
Hands Up!
As part of the Demand-Driven approach to reduce
poverty in Sierra Leone, Hands Empowering the
Less Privileged in Sierra Leone (HELP-SL) has
started a six month Small and Medium Enterprise
(SME) project entitled: Provision of Business
Development Services to Small-Medium Enterprisewith financial support from the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP).
The main objective of the project is to promote
income generation and reduce poverty through
business development and financial services for 600
young people in Bo, Bonthe, Moyamba, Tonkolili
and Pujehun districts.
The BDS project will target six hundred young
people between the ages of 15-35 in Bo, Moyamba,
Bonthe, Pujehun and Tonkolili districts who have
the desire and willingness to build small or medium
enterprises to improve and sustain their livelihood.
The HELP-BDS will implement the project in
collaboration with some like-minded organizations
including GIZ, ICCO, AFFORD and Restless
Development as key partners.
Table of Contents
Business Development Services (BDS)1
HELP-SL Youth enterprise & Livelihood development.2
Hygiene Promotion survey in Pujehun ..
Natural Leaders Training..
Another ODF Celebration in Tonkolili district5
One of the main project activities includes the
development of a Business Resource Centre
where all information on issues pertaining to
business formation, management, training and
mentorship will be provided to prospective
applicants.
Orientation for HELP- BDS staff
Another facility of the project is the creation and
use of radio programmes to educate the genera
populace about the various services.
According to HELP-SL Chief Executive Office
(C.E.O) Siaffa Jobson Momoh, this project wil
serve as a vehicle for change in terms of creating
jobs and accessing financial support for smal
scale business holders in HELP-SLs operationa
districts across the country.
Notes from the field work of Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra Leone
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As skill-building forms the back bone of youth
entrepreneurial development, HELP-SL has providedimpact-oriented, innovative, and sustainable skillstraining in basic business development for roughly
three thousand youth in Bo, Kenema, Kono, Makeni,and Freetown.
Using the participatory approach of Street Kids
Internationals Street Business Toolkit (SBTK),trainees learned basic business concepts, what itmeans to be an entrepreneur, and how to identify and
create profitable business ventures.
One of the briefing sessions with the beneficiaries about the project
Addressing participants in Bo, SBTK Master Trainer,
Abass Chernor Bah, stated that the goal of the
training is not to transform all youth intoentrepreneurs, but rather to expose participants tothe knowledge and skills necessary for creating a solid
business concept and turning that idea into a reality.
This training formed part of the selection criteria for
the first phase of the two years World Bank supported
project: Provision of Skills Development and
Employment Support to Urban Youth with some
Secondary education.
Youth engaged in economic activity in one of the selected TEVECs in Bo,
South of Sierra Leone
HELP-SL YOUTH ENTERPRISE & LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Cross section of targeted beneficiaries intraining session
One of the TEVECs in Freetown, capital city, Sierra Leone
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HYGIENE PROMOTION SURVEY IN PUJEHUN DISTRICT
One of the hand pumps to rehabilitatePeople responding to their present sanitation status
One of the hand pumps to rehabilitate
In a stride to continue improving access to
sustainable safe drinking water in Sierra Leone,
Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra
Leone (HELP-SL) has concluded a baseline survey
in ten communities in the Sowa and Kpanga
Karbondeh chiefdoms, Pujehun district.
The purpose of the survey was to know the
present status of water and sanitation facilities inselected communities that have already achieved
Open Defecation Free (ODF) status.
With this information, HELP-SL will be able to
ensure that the communities receive appropriate
support through the Improving Sanitation and
Decentralized Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
(WASH) project, funded by Water Aid.
Pointing to stream used for all domestic purposes including
drinking
The WASH project aims to construct and
rehabilitate water wells and hand pumps where
necessary.
This is done in line with the general objective o
promoting and increasing access to clean and safe
drinking water, health and sanitation facilities
across Sierra Leone.
HELP-SL received the project based on its vast
experience gained through implementing the
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in
Communities and Schools, Sanitation and Hygiene
Education (SSHE) projects throughout the country.
CLTS latrine in Baoma Timmi
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Hands Empowering the Less Privileged in Sierra
Leone (HELP-SL) believes that community-ledapproaches have great potential to make a
lasting, quality and sizeable impact on the
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) projectat both national and community levels.
This statement was made by HELP-SL, Human
Security Manager, Gassimu Mallah, at the three-day Natural Leaders Training.
The training focused on CLTS concepts and themethodology in performing triggering exercises.
In addition, CLTS is about making Open
Defecation (OD) communities achieve OpenDefecation Free (ODF) status. Mr. Mallahmaintained that CLTS uses a self-realization
approach, through triggering exercises, tocapture the communitys willingness andinvolvement to attain the safe sanitation
environment.
This can be achieved by people constructing
their own latrines with hand washing facilities
using local building materials in most cases heconcluded.
According to the Human Security Assistant
Programme Manager, Solomon Kassibo, Natural
Leaders are self-motivated people who
volunteer to help improve on sanitation in their
different localities followin tri erin .
CLTS INVOLVES MORE COMMUNITIES IN THE PUJEHUN
DISTRICT
Displayed of CLTS concept in brief
These Natural Leaders or community consultantsare critical in the success and sustainability of CLTS.
They can be identified during the triggering processby their enthusiasm and motivation to end open
defecation in the community.
Throughout the three-day training, participants
discussed in detailed the following steps incommunity triggering;
1. Pre-triggering: as the first approach to
trigger community for their involvement,2. Triggering: the actual triggering exercise to
create sanitation awareness
3. Post-triggering: the follow-up stage to ensure
participatory and sustainability in positivesanitation practices. Other issues looked atare the dos anddonts
Participants learning the techniques in doing effective triggering
The aged and youth determined to change their Open Defecation
communities
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Open Defecation Free (ODF) ceremony in Tane Chiefdom
On April 26, 2012, HELP-SL celebrated the achievementsof fifty-one communities that have attained Open
Defecation Free (ODF) status.
The celebration was held in Makona Village, Tane
Chiefdom, Tonkolili district, North of Sierra Leone, and
was attended by members of the local community, thehealth ministry, Tonkolili district council, and UNICEF.
The celebration was also attended by other keystakeholders including the Medical Superintendent,
North, Tane Chiefdom Speaker, Chief Dauda Gbla andRepresentative from Cotton Tree Foundation (CTF).
The Community Led Total Sanitation project started by
HELP-SL in 2010 with the support of UNICEF.HELP-SL
Human Security Manager, Gassimu Mallah said theimportance of the CLTS project is to inspire communities
using an open defecation system to achieve ODF statusby constructing their own latrines using local materials.
The approach is largely based on community willingness
and motivation after pre-triggering and triggering not on
subsidies Mallah added.
It is hope that the CLTS approach, backed with massive
health and education interventions of how to maintainODF status and access to safe drinking water, will helpensure good health, water and sanitation facilities.
The official declaration was done by the Tonkolili district
Council CLTS Taskforce Coordinator John Lakoh-
Duramanie.
Children and adults celebrating their ODF achievement
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