Less brutal than sexual slavery but, nonetheless tragic, is the forced labor of children in the absence of funding and/or opportunity for education. 

Compassion First has engaged two partnered strategies toward solutions for child forced labor in Sierra Leone.

Education Sponsorships

Compassion First is providing case managed sponsorships for children forced to the street to work due to lack of family funding for school fees.  Provision of school sponsorships are fully dependent on contract fulfillment by families committing to no longer utilize children as forced labor insuring the basic rights of sponsored children.

Rural School Building

Compassion First is partnered with church efforts in Sierra Leone to build and operate schools in villages where education is not available.  Micro-enterprise strategies and co-op programs on farming equipment are engaged in exchange for family commitments to keep children in school during harvest.

Compassion first will begin coordination school building teams  and water project teams to Sierra Leone in 2009.