The Impact Vocational Skills Training Center Building Project: From Vision to Visible Transformation
Impact Sierra Leone · 2026 Update · Phase 2 · Foindu Village Vocational Skills Training Center
Ishatu, ISL Women’s Agribusiness Collective Member and a Farmer in Foindu Village, Northern Sierra Leone
Since 2019, you have walked this journey with us. You didn’t just watch — you believed. You didn’t just applaud — you supported. And because of you, everything has changed.
Impact Sierra Leone has evolved from simply giving to intentionally building sustainable systems of empowerment. We began with outreach. But we quickly realized something important: Relief is temporary. Capacity building is transformational. That realization led us to Foindu Village in 2020 as our pilot partner community — and it set in motion everything that followed.
We Listened First
In April 2025, many of you, our dear friends, witnessed our groundbreaking moment — not just of land, but of vision. We entered Foindu with one commitment: to listen before we acted. We sat with community leaders. We listened to women. We engaged the youth. And what we heard was clear: “We don’t just want help. We want opportunity.” Those words became our mandate. They shaped every decision that followed.
Phase 2 Is Underway
Today, we are proud to announce that Phase 2 of the Impact Vocational Skills Training Center is officially underway. The community is actively molding bricks — laying the physical and economic foundation of what will become a skills hub for the entire region.
The center will serve four pillars: Women’s Economic Empowerment, Youth Vocational Training, Sustainable Income Generation, and Community-Led Development.
This center will provide practical skills training in areas that directly address unemployment and poverty in the region. It will move families from dependency to dignity.
Buildings require more than vision; they need a partnership. The foundation work has begun, but we now need your support, strategic partners, and donors to carry this forward. Your support will go toward completing structural construction, equipping training rooms, providing tools and vocational supplies, and launching the first cohort of trainees.
For us at Impact Sierra Leone, this is not just a building project. It is a poverty-reduction strategy. It is a women-empowerment model. It is a generational impact written in concrete and community. Foindu Village is not waiting for change. They are molding it with their own hands. Now we invite you to build with us.
Imagine a mother in Foindu village, sitting under a mango tree, wondering how she’ll feed her children next week. She’s strong. She’s smart. She’s capable. But opportunity? That’s been nowhere in sight.
Now picture this: That same woman, six months from now, walking into a bright, sturdy building. She’s learning to sew. To cook professionally. To create products people will actually pay for. She’s not just surviving anymore. She’s building.
That building? We’re constructing it right now. Brick by brick. And here’s where you come in.
The Buy a Brick Program
Impact Sierra Leone, in an effort to bring our supporters into our building project, launched an initiative called the Buy a Brick program to pull you closer to our project, and you forever become a part of the building.
For $50, you can purchase a brick that becomes part of the Vocational Skills Training Center in Foindu. Your name, your love, your belief in this community – it all gets built into these walls. But you’re not just buying a brick. You’re buying a chance, skill, and a future.
Here’s What’s Going Inside Those Walls:
Tailoring & Fashion Design – Women will learn to sew, design, and create clothing. They’ll make school uniforms, traditional wear, and modern fashion. They’ll turn fabric into income.
Catering & Food Preparation – Professional cooking skills. Baking. Food safety. Business planning for food vendors. They’ll feed their families and build businesses doing it.
Hairdressing & Cosmetology – Braiding, styling, salon management. Because every woman deserves to feel beautiful, and every stylist deserves to earn from her craft.
Soap Making & Crafts – Creating products from local materials. Handmade soaps, crafts, and goods can be sold at markets. Skills that turn everyday resources into income.
Business & Financial Literacy – Because learning a skill is one thing. Knowing how to price it, save money, and grow a business? That’s what makes it sustainable.
Each program runs for months. Hands-on. Practical. Taught by people who know these trades inside and out. And when a woman graduates? She doesn’t just get a certificate. She gets tools, startup materials, and the confidence to actually use what she’s learned.
🧱 $50 = 20 bricks – You become part of the foundation
🧱 $100 = 40 bricks – You’re building walls that protect dreams
🧱 $250 = 100 bricks – You’re constructing the opportunity itself
🧱 $500 =200 bricks – You’re a cornerstone of transformation
Every brick brings us closer to opening day.
And in December, when we gather for our Celebration of Hope, we’ll stand in front of those walls – YOUR walls – and celebrate what a community can do when people believe in them.
The Secretary of Impact Sierra Leone, Mr. Abu Sesay, shares a timely message for us all from Foindu Village.
Because Foindu is building its future. And we’re asking you to be part of the foundation
Together, we can raise more than walls. We can raise an opportunity.
PROJECT 2026: Together We Build to Harvest Hope.
United We Stand, Together We Rise.
Donate today at www.impactsierraleone.org