In November 2021, we have started an 18 month Yoga Teacher Training Course to qualify 22 Yoga Teachers for children, youth and adults.

The project is  impacting on various vulnerable communities 

Our project focuses on sharing tools that help minimise the effects of post-traumatic stress and other psychological pathologies, suffered by the majority of the country’s population. Promoting a peaceful and gradual social and environmental change, generating new habits to improve the mental and physical health of residents of Sierra Leone, and to create better living conditions in the present, and possibilities to build with dignity, a fair, decent and peaceful future.

Children in Sierra Leone face an array of interlinked obstacles which inhibit the fulfilment of their human rights. Most pressingly, children are at risk of early child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, child labour, violent abuse, female genital mutilation and gender-based violence. These risks, combined with systemic poverty, poor health conditions and educational challenges, endanger all children in the country. 

Less than 50% of children complete secondary education, leading to a national literacy rate of less than 60% for the population under the age of 15. The infant mortality rate for children under the age of five is 96.3 per 1,000 live births and 35% of children in Sierra Leone are subject to child labour. Malaria is estimated to account for up to 20% of all child mortality.