Gift of Drinking Water, for One Week (Digital download)
This gift provides drinking water for the boys and girls living on the streets who attend the Laughter Africa Mobile project. Every day we have approximately 100 children who come to the girls and boys' mobile projects. We also purchase water for the children living in the ICC too.
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
This gift provides drinking water for the boys and girls living on the streets who attend the Laughter Africa Mobile project. Every day we have approximately 100 children who come to the girls and boys' mobile projects. We also purchase water for the children living in the ICC too.
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
This gift provides drinking water for the boys and girls living on the streets who attend the Laughter Africa Mobile project. Every day we have approximately 100 children who come to the girls and boys' mobile projects. We also purchase water for the children living in the ICC too.
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
How your gift has helped Laughter Africa children in the past year:
We provide drinking water for the children at mobile - usually 50 bundles per week.
Our most recent mobile project took place in Bomeh and ended at the end of June 2024, reaching close to 350 children. Since January 2024, we have reunified 245 children and young people with their families from the mobile project.
Bomeh is in the Eastern part of Freetown where most rubbish ends up. During the day, the street children scavenge for materials such as plastic or copper while they sleep on the dump at night.
One of the boys who attended mobile in Bomeh was Abdul Salam. In 2017, he was kidnapped and tortured for 9 days whilst living on the streets. The perpetrator put a hot iron on his head, which has left a permanent scar. Abdul Salam recalled vividly the smell of his burning flesh.
Abdul Salam has not let this define his life, he is a hero. One day a girl, Betty came to mobile looking emancipated and hardly able to walk. I have never seen anyone so close to death, she needed a hospital immediately. Abdul Salam, lifted Betty onto his back and carried her all the way to hospital, without breaking a sweat. A boy who had been through the most unimaginable torture- who had been left so broken from his experiences-treating this girl with so much love, compassion and dignity. It is a picture that will stay with me for a long time. Although we paid for Betty to receive medical treatment, and reunified her with her family- she tragically died in July 2024.
Another time, one girl Isata was rushed to hospital after she experienced complications during labour. Sadly she lost her baby but what touched me the most was that when the doctors thought that she might need blood, three street children volunteered and offered her their blood straight away without any hesitation. I am so proud of their kindness, commitment and loyalty to each other.
We are hoping to launch our new mobile project in February 2025.