A Search For Self Leads To A Greater Calling


Sierra Leone Rising, formerly known as The Kposowa Foundation, is a 501c3 non-profit organization that was formed in 2006 by co-founders, Sarah Culberson and Hindo Kposowa to  build and restore much needed educational facilities, provide safe clean drinking water, solar electricity and agricultural development in the village of  Bumpe Sierra Leone. The nonprofit’s plans have grown broader over time. Bumpe  was selected because Sarah, adopted and raised by a white family in the U.S., traced her natural family and heritage there.

Visiting Bumpe to trace her roots Sarah discovered human suffering and need that she could not turn her back on.

The Bumpe high school, once a renowned boarding school with an enrollment of over 600 students from as far away as Nigeria, was destroyed by R.U.F. rebels during Sierra Leone's 11-year-long civil was from 1991-2002.

The Civil war also caused serious and grotesque human rights violations to many people. Thousands of Leonean people were left without hands, arms, feet, legs and with a homeland left in chaos. According to Human Rights Watch, over 50,000 people were killed during the war, with over one million people having been displaced. 

In addition to rebuilding the school including classrooms, dining hall and economics building the nonprofit has improved teacher pay and provides student scholarship. They have also expanded into focus on female empowerment. Sierra Leone Rising has worked with the Bumpe community on a bicycles program and a solar lantern program. Partnering with Rotary International they have dug wells serving 12,000 people. And in 2014 - 2105 during the devastating Ebola epidemic they provided education and supplies to the local community

You can find information to share via your social media networks on how you and your social media connections can help at http://www.sierraleonerising.org
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