Welcome to the Childhood Foundation Website

 

We are a small development charity that focus on educating children and young people through leisure activities.

Please support our work with children in UK and Sierra Leone by donating today.

In the UK, we run holiday clubs for children. 

 

 

In Sierra Leone , we want to educate children and young people through play.

 

Education is Sierra Leone is criticised for being too much talk and chalk. Children learn by rote and adults view children who question them as ill-mannered.

 

Our proposed Children's Clubs will aim to broaden the horizons of children and promote critical thinking skills.

 

Children's Club will be run by interested local social entrepreneurs and organisations who are passionate about childhood and about the development of Sierra Leone.

 

Every club will have a core element of
a small children's library service regular critical thinking sessions, and
at least two other activities devised in consultation with the children.

 

Annually we will organise various literary contests.

 

'My vision for Children's Clubs is that they will be as abundant as corner 'Fullah' Shops meeting the needs of children at a local level'

Regina Bash-Taqi ? Projects Director Childhood Foundation

 

You can help our work by donating whatever you can.

 

 

  Click the buttons below to view the essays written by children in Sierra Leone for the Lorna Jones Essay contest for african children in the diaspora.