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Turley Charitable Trust returns to Sierra Leone

A team of 11 co-owners is making a sixth trip to Sierra Leone in West Africa to work on a long-term project – building a new settlement to rehouse slum dwellers from the capital Freetown.

We are working with charity partner Home Leone, which acquired the 25 acre site of Destiny Village near Newton, and produced a masterplan for over 300 low-cost homes, business space, education and healthcare facilities with their own water and power supply. The first seven blocks of eight homes around courtyards are now built and the first residents moved in during 2019, with the primary school opening in September.

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Home Leone works in partnership with the Association of Slum Dwellers to select and prepare families for the move from informal settlements to a new life at Destiny, which involves committing to a rent-to-buy scheme, employment/training opportunities and school places.

We will be starting construction work on the eighth block of homes, which the £15,000 we are aiming to raise will fund, as well as visiting other charities around Freetown to distribute aid collected in the UK. Team travel is self-funded, with a contribution from our Charitable Trust, so all donations are used in Sierra Leone to pay for materials and labour.

SL18 team

Any donations can be made via our VirginMoneyGiving page.

Our work at Destiny is generously sponsored by Barratt Developments, Anwyl, Catesby Estates, DAC Beachcroft, the Employee Ownership Association, Hobs Repro, i-Transport, SICL, The Environment Partnership and Total Computers.

SL20 sponsors

We are also taking musical instruments donated by the Wardle Academy Youth Band who are reigning National and European Youth Brass Band champions. They have donated four cornets, a trombone, sheet music and uniforms to be used by the village school.

Previous Charitable Trust trips to Sierra Leone since 2012 have seen us help build a vocational training centre at Lifelines Nehemiah School, renovate a maternity wing at Waterloo Adventist Hospital, refurbish Saio Elementary School in Regent, build new classrooms at Destiny Village and repair steps in the Cobolt Slum in Freetown.

29 January 2020

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