Serving Children and Families
located in Wellington, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa.
We focus on children living without parental care to reintegrate them back into the community in safe and stable homes, and strengthen their families so that the risk of future child separation is eliminated.
Interim care, family tracing, assessment
We evaluate the issues that separated a child from their family in the first place, and ensure that placements will not only be permanent, but also safe and nurturing. We trace all members of the family to find suitable placements, and work with the Sierra Leonean Governmental Agencies for Child Protection to satisfy legal requirements, including paperwork to establish identity and relationships, and ensure that the authority of caregivers is recognized in law, and the placement satisfies all standards of care for the child’s wellbeing.
We equip and empower families to care well for their children, cherish cultural and community bonds and establish networks of resiliency and support, to ensure permanency and stability of child placement.
Funds are collected and disbursed by our USA-based mission partners, Helping Children Worldwide (HCW).
HCW is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation, registered to seek funding in the US as an NGO, and authorized to operate as a registered INGO in Sierra Leone.
100% of all funds collected for the CFPS fundraising campaigns of HCW to support our work in child and family permanency are used for the purposes described on the campaign page, and provided to CFPS for use in its work. HCW and CFPS work diligently to ensure that we comply with all laws of charitable institutions, and that funds collected are for the purposes of furthering the nonprofit mission of HCW and CFPS to help children and strengthen families.
Neither HCW nor CFPS provide legal or tax advice, and HCW is a US based 501(c)(3). 100% of your donations are deductions against US federal income taxes but you should check with a qualified tax advisor on the deductibility of your donations to CFPS through HCW if you reside outside of the United States of America.