Thousands of people, especially children, were killed, tortured, and maimed during the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone that afflicted the country for over a decade and left around one third of Sierra Leone's population displaced.

Infrastructure including thousands of schools became just piles of rubble and the nation was emotionally scarred for generations not least the country's children, thousands of whom had been enforced under pain of death to become child soldiers. Thousands more became orphans and for many their lives are still desperate and lonely. You can help when you sponsor a child in Sierra Leone:

www.worldvision.org.uk
www.actionaid.org.uk
www.plan-uk.org
www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk