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Community-led development in Sierra Leone
Impact

What we can say, and how we know.

Honest numbers with dates. Figures below are reported by CARDO and have not been independently audited.

Reported results

Results CARDO has reported.

50+ schools

Reported in May 2023: CARDO has worked with more than 50 schools since 2014 and supports more than 1,000 primary school children each year.

150+ people fed

In June 2022 CARDO fed more than 150 homeless people around Cotton Tree, Freetown.

10 partner communities

The Youth in Agriculture for Education programme works with ten partner communities across two chiefdoms.

18 years without water, ended

Kasimberia community now has a solar-powered tap water system after more than 18 years without safe water.

Light for Makorombo

Solar electricity has been installed in Makorombo community.

A school for Sokoya

CARDO built a community school in Sokoya village. It had enrolled more than 150 children in October 2017.

These figures come from CARDO’s own reports and are dated where the date is known.

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